Day 9 Cold and Windy and a Story

WHERE ARE WE? Uvalde, Texas

Well when we got up this morning, it was back to wearing blue jeans.  The wind howled all night long and temperature plummeted!!!  By the time we crawled out of bed it was only like 12C with about a 50 km wind from the north.  Thoughts of going to the dirt track races in this weather was not a great option as well as the fact that the spectator stands are on the south side of the track, so there would be nothing but dust in the face all night long.  So I convinced myself that we should take advantage of the wind from the north and get in RRV and head south.  I got all my stuff done and before we left, I quickly checked facebook to see who had read my blog!!  Have you checked out the comments on it??  My family have ganged up on the fact that I had little to blog about last night!!!  Thanks SO much!!!  LOL   Anyway, we headed south about 11:30 with the wind pushing us along.  It will be good gas mileage today.

Looks nice, but was cool and really windy

The mid to southern part of Texas south of Abilene is rolling with lots of hills and trees and grasslands.  We enjoyed the drive and the wind pushing us made the up hills less of a battle. 

 We did have to stop for gas today along the way and it was 3.78 a US gallon.  About 0.53 a gallon more than when I came through in the spring.  I always love to see when the real rancher Texan pulls up to pumps and has to hold his head sideways to get out of the car.  This guy had his on lock because the wind was still blowing.  Of course he was driving a Lincoln Navigator.  Everyone is soooo friendly and especially in Texas it seems.  I'm sorry our schedule is not allowing us to spend some time here before continuing on to Mexico.

So today daughter Sheri had a little deal at work because she is moving on to a new job in Regina area.  She has given her notice at Rhino Property Management in Brandon with some reluctance.  She liked the job and the people, but has another chapter to her life that needs writing, so she is moving on.  So they got pizza and cake for her.  Nice of them.  

Anyway there is more to this story.  This morning as they were arriving at work one of the guys saw one of the other employees get hit by a car at the pedestrian crossing near their office.  He of course went and helped and the cops and ambulance arrived very quickly. The poor lady was hit pretty hard and has suffered 2 breaks in each of her legs for a total of 4 breaks.  She has since been transported to Winnipeg for surgery apparently and we wish her well.  Not a great way to start your day.

Once they got the lady all loaded up in ambulance, Sheri went over to give the lady a hug in the ambulance while the cops picked up all her stuff off the road.  The lady says to Sheri that she had baked her a cake to have at the office and made sure Sheri still got it from the cops.  We think it may of somehow got a direct hit before it was retrieved.  Maybe it saved an arm or something from being broken as well!!!

Well our trip saw us end up going another 400 kms down the road.  We have travelled a total of 2735 kms since leaving home.

We started seeing some cactus along the way today, so we know we are in the south.  We will see lots of these for the next few days.

We are Wally docking again tonight because we need a couple things before heading into Mexico.  About an hour before sunset, the grackles started moving in and will be on the wires and in the trees right beside us to serenade us starting about 4:30 am.  These ones actually sing unlike the ones in Mexico that make the most God awful grating noise.  

We only have about 200 kms to go tomorrow to the Laredo Rest Stop on 35 highway where we will spend the night before heading across the Mexican Border on Sunday.  So tomorrow we have to get some Mexican Auto Insurance and make sure we have our paperwork ready for that crossing so we will just take our time.  This is our spot for tonight.  Good Nite!!!