We have travelled 1000 miles from Rockport to Tucson ...we have crossed the hill country and the desolate high country of Texas. We have had Texas smoked BBQ and all the fixins' in Beeville and Kerrville. We stayed in the Sonora fairgrounds for a night and a Walmart and it's neighbour K Mart in Fort Stockton, Texas and Deming, New Mexico.
It has been some of the most uninteresting countryside we have travelled including all the prairies of both Canada and the US. Sorry Texas but I think much of the interest in this state must be in its major centers.
We have travelled from hollers, to bayous, to mesas, rest areas to parking areas, pump jacks, oil rigs, and wind turbines. Even though sometimes it seems like endlessly boring landscapes it is still interesting in its own way. I don't think we can regret a mile of our travels. This section is a means to an end as we transition from our trip of discovery back to our second home in the deserts of Arizona.
We have felt like long distance truckers travelling with the semis and the trains. I am entranced by the variety of semi trucks. Most are plain but many are decked out (pimped) and have such personality in design and colour. Another interesting aspect of interstate travel is the variety of plates. America travels so much more than we do in Canada. Vehicles pass us loaded down with their belongings or pulling a UHaul. We see state plates of a variety we never saw traveling the Mississippi corridor. Such is the crossing of the country on an interstate. America is on the move both personally and commercially.
We cross the continental divide at 4585 feet, again, this time moving west instead of east. We have climbed from the sea level of Rockport to 5000 feet and now we are descending from New Mexico into Arizona, sliding into Tucson and its warm temperatures and blue desert skies we love. We thought we were bored with Arizona but after our experiences of this trip we now know we really are desert snowbirds not Winter Texans.
Casino del Sol in west Tucson provides free unlimited camping. We have stayed here before and after dumping and taking on water at TTT we set up to see how the RV traffic flows. We treated ourselves to Saturday night buffet. Interesting comment...usually we are asked if we qualify for seniors discount....tonight we didn't get asked ...just received the discount automatically...what does that say...:( I'm a little sad about that but maybe the staff person was exceptionall young, I can't remember, duh!!
Sunday is a sunny, warm and quiet day. We are unwinding, and after breakfast we walk around our camp and then spend the rest of the day watching football, taking in some sun, and even doing a little painting. Desert colours are so much more vivid than than the ' watered down' colours of the Texas gulf.
We are happy to stay here for awhile. It has been 4/ 5 years since we have spent time in Tucson and we look forward to revisiting places from the past.
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