Leaving Texas behind us

Wow Texas seems like it was such a long time ago.  We are moving slowly most days not traveling more than 40-50 miles.  Leaving Round Rock, TX we have gone from Llano to Winter to Abilene to Big Springs and finally El Paso, TX.  Each very interesting spots so I will write a little bit about each one.

Llano, Tx is a small community and like so many small towns the courthouse is really the focal point of the town but go much more than a block or two in any direction and you see a mixture of older homes with a few newer ones built among them.  They have a small RV park just out of town that we spent the night in.  Nothing special being built right next to the golf course so I can imagine that it is heavily used by snowbirds.

Winter, TX was not our planned stop, it was supposed to be Coleman but my information was outdated and they no longer allowed overnight camping.  We drove through their downtown area and decided that we were not missing anything so we move on to Winter which was only 20 or so miles away.  Winter had a very nice RV park right downtown and we had it to ourselves but being New Years eve just about everything was closed, still a nice walk downtown.

Abilene, TX is a rather large city in Texas and where my nephew David is currently attending college.  Here we did not stay in the city but at a park just north of town called SeeBee Park.  Here they have three designated camping spots which we did not use disregarding their rules but I figure if they want you to use those sites they need to clean them up a bit.  So we setup on the hill overlooking the dried up pond and it was also in the sun so it provided a little bit of solar heat for us.

Big Springs, TX this is a larger community and the home of June's place, a lady that allows people to camp in her side yard.  June's hospitality was awesome making us feel right at home.  We were waiting for our mail and we were also waiting for a winter snow storm to pass so we spent three nights there.  The second night she invited us over for a chili dinner which not only the food was fantastic but the company.  Our mail finally arrived on our third day but we waited until the next morning to head out.

El Paso, TX.  This was a Walmart camping night so the days travel was as eventful as the night but the next morning we stopped at Costco to pickup a couple supplies.  Being a bit early the store wasn't open yet but the Costco gas station was so I took my little generator gas can over to top it off.  At the pump next to me I started a conversation with the gentleman pumping gas and he asked me if that all I was doing is filling up that gas can and before I could say yes he removed the nozzle from his truck and filled up my gas can.  I only regret that I did not get his name.  About an hour later we stopped at another gas station to fill up our propane tanks.  While I was at the register a gentleman was looking for some distilled water rather desperately and disappointed when the clerk told him that they did not carry any.  He told the clerk that he needs some because he has two batteries that were almost dry.  I told him to come out with me that I carry some distilled water with me and gave him two liters of distilled water and his batteries took every drop.  He offered to pay me but I told him about the gentleman that filled my gas can earlier.  So now it is his turn, we shook hands and we crossed drove on down the road.