September 9-12, 2017

Temp: Lows: mid 60's; highs: high 80's

New States: New Mexico, Texas

Accrued miles to Date: 12,400

Saying for the day: Money doesn't buy happiness but it does buy cows and cows make milk and milk makes ice cream, and ice cream makes ya HAPPY!

9th: Stop for a Border Patrol Check, not even on the Border! Waved us right through, don't fit the profile I guess. Enter NM at 10:00 a.m. Back to Mtn. Time Zone.

10th: Passed a HUGE Manufacturing plan: ALASKA FABRIC STRUCTURES. Drive by acres and acres of Pecan Trees and along the Mexican border by Juarez, Mexico and along "THE WALL." Now we're in Central Time Zone.

11th: Today: SEPTEMBER 11, 2011-2017 WE REMEMBER! Lots of drilling going on here in Texas and an Enormous Refinery in Big Springs. Cross the Colorado River, very small but it's the Colorado. Acres and acres of Windmill Farms.

12th: Leave for Waco, Texas today; through Abilene at 9:15 a.m. A lot of back roads travel today, nice, not much traffic. OH, some cotton fields!

Arrive: Riverview RV Park, Waco, Texas at 1:17.

Staying: 3 nights.