A whole lot of nothing!

Yes that about sums up West Texas! Theresa drove first, leaving the El Paso entry to the admiral, Kevin.

First stop was fuel 5 miles down the road then more I10 West. As the Smitanic cruised along, Kevin was annoyed by the Break-Buddy beeping irregularly indicating with lost communication with the Toad unit. Diagnostics began. Was it that the plug was not inserted completely? Maybe it was the connection back to the mother ship? The Break buddy communicates via remotely via a some sort of wireless connection back to the receiver at the helm. One stop was made to check the plug and connection...that did not resolve the issue. Theresa was thinking what was different? Then she recalled that the sunshade was put up in the Jeep's front window to keep heat and the sun rays off the cars interior. Perhaps this could mess with the signal since it was a bit metallic in nature. One more stop to remove the window visor then back on the road. Wa-la that was it, no more beeping! Kevin could now relax and was comfortable enough with Theresa's driving that he even read a bit from his book :).

At the midway rest stop, Theresa gave up the command and Kevin was left with the remaining 150 miles of Texas. What a long state. Theresa was working on her Mac posting the blog and getting accommodations for the days stop. While she called she need to put her Mac on the dash for just a minute while juggling phone, pen and paper to take down the codes for the evenings accommodations. Unexpectedly her Mac fell off the dash on to the cup holder area and then on to the floor hitting her foot. Her foot caught the brunt of the impact and the Mac was OK, however later that evening Kevin found that his iPhone that was in the cup holder area had been smashed and the front case shattered. One more thing to have to deal with.

Tonight's spot the Gaslight Square Mobile Estates and RV park west of El Paso is one of the smallest places yet! There is good wifi, but not much of anything else. It was a tight squeeze into the site and the slide outs barely made it open without hitting tree branches.

With a gain of an hour (now on Mountain time) dinner of leftovers and bedtime were very early!