Rally Planning Trip to Alpine

Thursday, January 12th, 2017

Late last week, Tony realized he'd have this Friday off from school, so we decided to take advantage of it and make a trip to Alpine for our upcoming Rally. We needed to wrap up some question marks and square away some other ideas we had for the rally, and this was basically the only time we had.

So, Wednesday I started prepping the coach for travel, and Thursday morning did everything to be ready to go inside when Tony came home. Thursday at Noon, he left work, got us lunch, we ate, then  he worked the outside prep. (Dumping tanks, checking air, stowing hoses and cables). We were on the road by 1:45, pretty good considering!

We also had used some Christmas money to help purchase a new Garmin RV GPS. As mentioned in previous blogs, we were pretty fed up with the Rand McNally that we'd had for about 5-6 years now. Right away, we liked the bigger sceeen and simpler setup and operation of the Garmin.

We headed down I-20 west. We made good time and only had one stop. The GPS told us to turn at Odessa and go south on 385, which was not the way we went previously. We decided to follow her advice, not knowing if it was a better route or not. We did see more towns, I know! We passed through Crane, TX, and didn't realize it was the bigger of the towns around. We kept going and stopped in McCamey. Sadly there was not much in this town! We ended up getting burgers at Stripes, because their grill was open. Surprisingly, they were pretty good! By this time, it was dark, and the rest of our journey was in rural nothingness. Luckily also, there were very few cars out, and we could drive mostly with the high beams on.

We Merged from 385 onto I-10 on the east side of Fort Stockton, went through town and then headed south once on the western side of town, on 67. The rest of the drive was uneventful, and we got to Alpine about 8:45pm. We had called ahead so they had our info ready when we arrived after hours. We pulled into our site and got set up quickly, and hit the hay soon after. A long day, but so glad we are here!