Day 21, Wednesday, January 17, 2007
34 in Mercedes this morning.
Just not a good time to winter in the South West. We debated about staying yet another (fifth) day because the weather is so cold and freezing rain is to fall the next couple of days just to the north and west of here, but decided to just go anyway. Why wait for better weather only to spend the days on the road trying to make up time. We will travel West as fast and as far as we can to find sunshine, then when we do spend some time there.
Left about 10:30 am with Big Bend National Park area as our goal for the next two or three days as we work our way out of Texas, staying at the National and State Parks along the way. But by the time we got to Laredo, however, it dawned on us that we could just cut straight north to I-10 and bypass the slow winding roads to Big Bend and Interstate our way out of Texas and into New Mexico and Arizona. Exploring the National Park in this freezing weather just was not appealing. We drove a total of 325 miles today and arrived at Garner State Park (West of San Antonio) about dusk.
All day the weather had been cloudy and cold but no moisture. Then about 50 miles south of the State Park the landscape all of a sudden became what we thought was foggy up ahead. Soon we discovered it was freezing rain that had put a coating of ice on everything. Thankfully it had happened the day before because the roads were clear and mostly dry. The park has a coating of ice on the ground but that’s ok! The girls just love it. Lots of deer around here and the sights and smells are magnificent for the two of them. No cell phone service here, and therefore no internet, but we do have the DirecTV dish up. The weather still looks horrible for this area and the direction we plan to travel into tomorrow. If there is freezing rain tomorrow we will not travel. Hope that is not the case.
Garner State Park camp site
Ellen & Gracie on Garner State Park walk
Just not a good time to winter in the South West. We debated about staying yet another (fifth) day because the weather is so cold and freezing rain is to fall the next couple of days just to the north and west of here, but decided to just go anyway. Why wait for better weather only to spend the days on the road trying to make up time. We will travel West as fast and as far as we can to find sunshine, then when we do spend some time there.
Left about 10:30 am with Big Bend National Park area as our goal for the next two or three days as we work our way out of Texas, staying at the National and State Parks along the way. But by the time we got to Laredo, however, it dawned on us that we could just cut straight north to I-10 and bypass the slow winding roads to Big Bend and Interstate our way out of Texas and into New Mexico and Arizona. Exploring the National Park in this freezing weather just was not appealing. We drove a total of 325 miles today and arrived at Garner State Park (West of San Antonio) about dusk.
All day the weather had been cloudy and cold but no moisture. Then about 50 miles south of the State Park the landscape all of a sudden became what we thought was foggy up ahead. Soon we discovered it was freezing rain that had put a coating of ice on everything. Thankfully it had happened the day before because the roads were clear and mostly dry. The park has a coating of ice on the ground but that’s ok! The girls just love it. Lots of deer around here and the sights and smells are magnificent for the two of them. No cell phone service here, and therefore no internet, but we do have the DirecTV dish up. The weather still looks horrible for this area and the direction we plan to travel into tomorrow. If there is freezing rain tomorrow we will not travel. Hope that is not the case.
Garner State Park camp site
Ellen & Gracie on Garner State Park walk
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