Cowboy land

We headed west out of San Antonio for a long drive to Fort Stockton, Texas.  We were making our big push to cross the big state.  Even though we didn't want to push our vehicles, 

War Eagle, the speed limit finally changed to 80 mph.  The landscape changed and we began to feel like we were in the Texas of cowboy movies.

When we settled into Fort Stockton and headed out to find Tim's "steak as big as his head", a bucket list item for Tim.  We bought it at Miller's Meat Market.  We saw the famous giant roadrunner sculpture and realised we should look out for Wile E. Coyote.  This was the first time we saw 100 degrees on the sign, so we made sure we were back in time for a swim to cool off before dinner.  It was surprising how hot the temp was and how cool the pool.  The most shocking thing was when you got out of the pool that hot wind evaporated the water immediately and we were quite cold.  We were finally out of the humidity and into the dry heat.  Karen especially liked her non-frizzy hair since we didn't bring a hair dryer.

We made sure to catch the sunset as that was the selling point of our Hilltop RV Park.

  

The next morning we enjoyed the scenery once more

and got on the road early to beat the heat and get to Carlsbad, NM.