When you are driving across Texas It is hard to see anything let a lone a tree. So we got on the other side of San Antonio and thought we would tryout a truck stop for the night. We picked the Flying J, because we had researched the stops and they sounded RV friendly. We pulled in and gas up before going to the parking area. After gas fill up we parked out of the way and out a ways from the station.
I got the bicycle down and rode back up to the service center and got our supper for the night. I came back and started up the generator and watched TV while eating supper. I could not access the WI-FI at the Flying J, because you had to subscribe to their system to be able to access the Internet.
There are some drawbacks to parking in the truck stop. The big one is noise at all hours unless you are a heavy sleeper. It was not the best night I spend, but was not that bad. I got up in the morning and all I could see was semi-trailer on both sides not more then a foot away. It felt like we were in a box. We put the coffee on and got ready to leave for the days drive.
We were going to make it out of Texas today!!! We got to New Mexico and stopped at our first roadside store. This one had the jewelry and rattlesnakes for sale. After a couple hours there I got the wife to leave on a promise to stop at another one. We got all our packages in the rig and off we go again.
Will down the road about 15 minutes and the right rear tire blows out and we are on the side of the road. Now one thing I did get was Good Sam's road side service. This was a wise choice and I was glad we had it. We had to wait about two and half hours for the guy to get there. He jacked the rig up and found we had two tires blown out on the dually. He had brought one tire and I had a spare, so we got the tires on and down the road we go.
We blow thru Deming and get to Lordsburg, New Mexico. We spend the night at Lordsburg and were off in the morning for Tucson, Arizona. We had picked the SOUTH FORTY RV RANCH RV Park north of town.
The South Forty Ranch RV Park was a nice place to stay. They had a good pool and club house area and we stayed four days to catch up on laundry and rest. It was a good rest place and the sites were cement pad with stone lot. We will hit the road for San Diego after Tucson. See you on the road.
