Texas, Fredericksburg - Sunday, April 21, 2019 - Travel to Fredericksburg

This is the view from our front window at the Ft. Stockton RV Park.  We like the convenience of this country RV park right off of I-10.  Our site has always been one of the pull through sites with easy exit back out to the highway.  The only thing we found wrong with our stay this time was a very persistently cooing dove in the tree next to us – I don’t think that darn bird ever took a breath.

 On Saturday evening we decided to brave the very strong winds and take a walk on the Six Shooter Trail.

No neatly trimmed landscaping here, just lots of rugged nature.

Not sure if these are wildflowers or weeds, guess it depends on your perspective, I’m going with flowers.

These yellow flowers were a constant roadside companion all the way to Fredericksburg.

Fredericksburg is in Texas Hill Country.  I actually call these mountains.

We were expecting a sleepy town on Easter Sunday afternoon – wow, this place was crowded.  

Across the highway from the KOA where we are staying we saw corn that was already about 8” high.

We met a couple of our neighbors on our Sunday evening walk.

There we are across the grassy area.

Texas, Ft. Stockton - Saturday, April 20, 2019 - Tour of Ft. Stockton

On Friday we left Las Cruces headed for Ft. Stockton, TX.  Luckily, the wind died down over night and we had a rather pleasant, but long and boring drive to Ft. Stockton.

After getting through El Paso, which seemed to go on forever, there wasn’t much to see.

We had to make a stop at a checkpoint to be inspected by border patrol.  We just rolled through while the heat detecting cameras and the drug sniffing dog didn’t find anything.

On Friday night we watched the Clint Eastwood movie, The Mule.  This is a good one.  It’s based on a true story of an 80 year old man who became a drug runner for the Cartel.  The movie ended with a song called “Don’t Let the Old Man In” by Toby Keith.  Keith was inspired to write the song after a conversation he had with 88 year old Eastwood.  He asked Eastwood who was getting ready to produce and star in the movie how he kept so active.  Eastwood’s reply was that he “got up and didn’t let the old man in”.  I love that thought, from now on we are going to get up and “not let the old folks in”.

Today we had breakfast at the Roadrunner Café here on site at the Ft. Stockton RV Park.  I did a little housekeeping and a load of laundry and then we headed into town.

We stopped at the Visitors Center and found out that everything was shut down for the Easter weekend.  We still walked around a bit.  The center is a former railroad depot that was built in 1911 and rehabbed in 1991.

Lots of metal sculptures around the center depicting wagons, pioneers and cowboys.

Fort Stockton was founded in 1859 and was abandoned during the Civil War.  It was reestablished in 1867 and operated until 1886.  This guard house is one of four original buildings on site.  Unfortunately, the property was also shut down for the weekend.

We did get a good look at the “second largest roadrunner” on our way out of town.  Roadrunners are a big thing around here.  I think we saw the largest one near Las Cruces.