Up at 9:30!   Woo hoo!   Of course we stayed up until 2 watching TV.  A rare treat.  Time to get a move on back to Iowa Park and get load. Hope it’s ready.  

There is a high school on the way to the shipper and the road that runs by it is Bob Dawson Drive.  How cool is that?  

We have stopped for the night in Lampasas, Texas. Neat little place.   We have driven all day through these little towns.   Most of the stores are closed which is sad.   One place we passed through was Mineral Wells, Texas.   There is a huge old run down hotel sitting in town around  an almost empty town.  Apparently it used to be the go to place for mineral water and healing baths.   Now it’s all run down and they say it’s full of ghosts.  

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Hotel_(Mineral_Wells,_Texas)

They apparently had just had a festival but we missed it.   I guess it was crazy! 

There is a lot of pretty country in Texas. Lots of rolling hills, outcroppings of rocks, cows, and lots of goats. A few mules and llamas too.   

Gregory sent me some beautiful pictures.  

Kaiden in his new braces.  

Nighty night. 

  
Apparently you can now travel with your house.   Actually this is a new RV, the guy told us, that is completely off the grid.  Solar power, incinerator for sewer, rain barrel with water filter some device that gets up to 5 gallons of water a day out of the air.   He said some people were using it as houses out in the middle of nowhere and don’t or can’t hook up to anything.   Pretty neat.  

DG:  So when do we get one?  They are made in Athens, TX and this was a show model he was taking to set up on display. Sounded really neat. 

Yes, we are in Lampasas,TX.  Looked like a good place to spend the night.  The next truck stop is over two hours away and by that time of night parking would be at a premium.  We only have about four hours to go to get to our stop which is the KLLM yard in Laredo. Load is not technically due until Monday between 0800 and 3:00 pm so there is definitely no hurry. These are the kinds of loads you like to have if you are going someplace where there is something to do in your free time.  Or are driving off of the interstates, which we are. Another reason to stop early as driving on a two lane road with a 75 mph speed limit through the middle of Texas on a Saturday night is not my idea of fun. Besides, all those little towns we pass through with all of the closed businesses have at minimum two liquor stores and several bars that still seem to be doing well. 

A lot of goats in Texas. And did you know, goat farmers use donkeys to guard their goats. Yes. We kept noticing that every time we saw a field of goats there would be a donkey or two in the field with them.  We didn’t think anything about that until Annie was curious about the difference between donkeys and mules. So hello Google, or DuckDuckGo which is her new search engine.  And that’s where we learned that donkeys don’t like dogs, wolves, coyotes, snakes, mountain lions and several other threats to goats and sheep and will actually attack them sorts of critters if they come around. Go figure. Ain’t nature wonderful?  

We are learning so much out here. There is also a website for history markers and here in Texas there are signs telling you when you are coming up on one and what it’s number is. So you just look it up by number and get a history lesson right as you are driving by the place where the history happened. Look out Jeopardy, here we come. 

All that thinking has made me sleepy so am going to turn in now.

Good night and God bless.