Woke up in San Antonio at clare's apartment. Jon and Jim were just about ready to leave, so we said goodbye to them as they started their marathon drive back to Ohio. I hung around for a couple more hours bothering clare and packing my things, and then I was on the road again myself!
This marks the end of my friend visits and the start of many days on the road by myself. It felt weird to say goodbye to Dayton friends, and it feels even weirder that I am not seeing a familiar face at the end of the day to talk about it with! Soon enough that will happen again...
Today was pretty straightforward in terms of road maps: drove on I-10 until van horn. Easy! And it got even easier once out of san Antonio city limits, because that's when the speed limit went up to 80. Dang! I stayed at 80 or under most of the time, as I am not one to speed anyways and had heard about the highway patrol that watch west texas like hawks (and this was true, as I saw double digits at least of cars being pulled over).
For the first three hours heading west, the drive was prett scenic. There were lots of trees and rolling hills which then gave way to more mountainous hills and shorter shrubs. Looked kind of like the southwest (or how I would imagine it), and at points it reminded me of central california on 101.
Then I got into the last half of my drive, which was basically flat, treeless, and boring. Luckily it went by quickly! I got to Van Horn around 6pm or so. The city is tiny but is eclipsed on three sides by mountains- very cool. The campground is hilarious- there are chickens and roosters pecking outside my tent (I shooed them away in my best old lady shooing voice).
Did I mention the weather? So beautiful. It is in the 80s probably right now and slightly windy and it just awesome. I could sit outside all day in weather like this!
Hitting the hay early tonight so that I can gear up for tomorrow- exciting new plans I figured out today! I will leave you waiting in suspense for them...
Joey
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