Ft Stockton, Tx - Lordsburg, NM

Day 6 – 1/11/10
We got an earlier start today. We were up, had breakfast and were on the road by 10:30 a.m. CST. We didn’t hook up the sewer last night and found that the Gray Tank was full and backing up into the bathtub. So we had to dump the tanks before takeoff. We saw some really interesting mountains along the trail. We think they were the Guadalupe’s. About 100 miles east of El Paso the mountain tops were covered with snow. What a pretty sight.

At 12:30 we stopped for gas in Van Horn, where we had originally planned to spend the night last night. We stopped at the Pilot Station where gas was $2.75 a gallon. We could have gotten it at Murphy for $2.48, but that was in Fort Stockton and we were not ready to fill up at that time.

The time changed from Central to Mountain just west of Van Horn. About an hour west of Van Horn the Border Patrol were thick. We also saw some really neat wigwams at a Rest Area and lots of very rocky mountains (not to be mistaken for the Rocky Mountains in Colorado.) Somewhere along this area, we crossed the Continental Divide, took me by surprise and I didn't get any pictures. Maybe on the way back thru here . . .

We arrived in New Mexico at 2:00 p.m. MST. We had planned to spend the night in Las Cruces, but drove a couple more hours down the road and stopped at Lordsburg. We hadn’t had anything to eat since breakfast, so we stopped at Kranberry’s Restaurant. That was at 4:30 and we had breakfast at 8:00 MST. We got to Lordsburg KOA at 5:30 where we will spend the night.

That's it for this update. Check back tomorrow for more updates as we continue our journey to sunny Southern California.