Childress, TX

Dallas, TX  - Childress, TX
4/18/24

Miles Traveled   260
Trip Total          1608
Travel Time       4:55
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States visited: FL, GA, AL, MS, LA, Texas

Today we traveled most of the day by ourselves.  Ken & Cheryl left a couple of days ago, and will meet up with us in New Mexico.  Mark and Karen, were coming from about 25 miles away from us.  Our plan was to meet up with Mark & Karen where I20 intersects with TX Route 360.  That almost worked perfectly.  When we got to the intersection they were about 2 miles behind us, than for some reason our GPS took us on two different routes to Childress.  We did mange to get back together about 100 miles from the campground.

You might be asking why stop at Childress, what is there to do?  The answer is NOTHING!  We only planned to stop here because it was on our route, and it was about our normal travel distance for one day.  By the time we got here we were glad to be done traveling for the day.  Until we got away from the Dallas - Fort Worth area the traffic was pretty heavy.  The highlight of that part of the trip, was the idiot that decided to pass me on the right, even though I was in the right lane.   We were about 3/4 of a mile from the exit ramp, and I guess he did not feeling staying behind, or maybe passing me in the empty left lane.

Once we got pass the cities, we started to see the real beauty of Texas. Ranch after Ranch, Cattle everywhere, Oil Wells, Windmills. and Fields as far as you could see.  As beautiful as it was it came with a price.  We got to fight 25MPH winds for the last half of the trip.  While 25MPh winds are not that high, when you are driving a 36' box, it makes it becomes more challenging. 

We had reservations at J&S RV Ranch.  It is a small working ranch right off the highway with 20 full hookup RV sites.  When we arrived there were about 8 long term campers there and the rest open spots.  There is no office, and no staff on site just cattle, goats and geese.  We picked our spots, and figured someone would show up at some point.  We later found out that there is no comes around, but there is a payment box, by the cattle pen, It's on the honor system just put your money in the box.

Tomorrow we are going to Roswell, New Mexico to look for the aliens.