Made it out of Texas...whew!

Today was an interesting day on the road.    It was about 93 degrees this morning when we left the campground.  We made it to Dalhart, Texas and had to go under a train overpass.  There is normally a by-pass sign or Truck Route sign but we found none.  Our rig is 13'6" and the overpass was only 13'7" and very steep in the middle.  That means if we hit a bump, we could lose our air conditioner YIKES!  We found a place to pull over and we called the local police to ask for directions.  They sent a police car to our location and he drove us about 10 miles to where we needed to be without going under the overpass!  True midwest courtesy!

We continued on NW and into New Mexico.  The temperatures went down to the low 80 degrees.  Our drive through New Mexico was uneventful (for us that's a good thing)!  We stopped for fuel and I took the wheel.  I even backed up a little way to miss a rock (I don't back up very well)!  Ted spotted some antelope along the way and before we knew it we were in Colorado.  We had been climbing and our outside temperature went down into the high 60 degrees.  Such a change from the three weeks plus at over 100 degrees every single day! 

After awhile the temperature started up again and hit 93 degrees.  Then when we got to Pueblo, Colorado, we had a front row seat to a ton of lightning right in front of us!  It was quite something.  As we neared the lightning, we started hearing thunder and the rain started.  For about 3 or 4 miles it poured!  People started pulling over to the side of the road  and fortunately slowed down to a crawl.  We couldn't see very far in front of the truck!  The temperature came down again to the low 60 degrees!

We stopped again for fuel, our new truck holds 37 gallons, our old truck held 59.  We may have to buy an add on tank when we save up some money!  Diesel is running about $3.79.  Ted took over driving and then we hit some more rain.  His navigator (who is not to be named), made a change in the campground plan at the last minute and then figured out it was about 15 miles out of town so we had to do a turn around but finally got back on the road and made it to the campground here in Colorado Springs! 

The outside temperature is now 64 degrees!  YAY!  Max was getting stir crazy with a long day while RV got worked on and two long days of driving so we had a nice long cool walk after dinner!

Enjoying the cool weather and rain..."Ain't Life Grand!"