As you can see, much of Pueblo El Mirage is occupied for the summer and we are also dealing with

because most of us are lost in our eternal “old person fog” so Mark and I took off a few days late.  The bus took to beeping again on tthe day we were all loaded up and ready to leave and it took the wonderful guys at RV Master Tech a morning to get it running again with the additive Mark calls diabolical grease ( really dielectric grease).

Our first enchanting stop was New Mexico where we spent a boogie night in Lordsburg.

The next day we saw this really huge roadrunner at the gas station just before we

And entered

Texas, if you couldn’t guess.

sorry, Miles and Karen, Texas isn’t in our top 50 States.  It took us 2 hours to go 18 miles in Houston.

But I did see something I’ve been looking for my whole life…

The SECOND Baptist church!  I’ve seen the first one hundreds of times, so I was really glad to find this one!

So, to recap:  Four days on the road through West Texas being entertained by county names because the towns are so few and far between, horrendous traffic from San Antonio on, and finally getting to Houston in rush hour traffic on a Friday night.

Getting there was not fun!  Things must get better!

PS. When I get back in the Fall, if the signs are still up I’m getting out my magic marker.