8:45 a.m. - We left Debbie and Jimi's after a great evening and a good morning. Jimi left for work about 8:00 a.m. and Debbie was leaving right after us. The majority of the homes and business' here in Texas, that we see, seem to be made of brick.
Hardly no wood or stucco structures. The temp is a cool 33 degrees, but we have sunny, blue skies. Elliott sure is a cute little dog. It is funny to watch him when you tell him to go to his bed and he goes and then waits for his treat. We are taking I-35 south from Debbie and Jimi's to US-190 west towards Killeen, TX and then to US-281 south and catch US 29 west to US-377 south to Junction, TX which is on I-10 west. We will then continue on I-10 west to Fort Stockton and hope to spend the night in a La Quinta Inn.
10:00 a.m. - Debbie you might be interested in this little tidbit. In a small town of Lampasas, TX, which has 6700 people in the middle of nowhere gas is only $1.54 gallon a
t a new Wal-Mart and $1.59 at a regular station down the street. We figure it must be a winter retreat because there is a fancy hotel, a lot of new business cropping up and a resort area with cabins to rent on a lake here, by a dam. They are also building a big new high school here (for 6700 people? you figure)
11:00 a.m. - We stopped at our favorite place to eat--Cooper's Old Time Pit Bar B-Que in Llano, TX right off the freeway. This is the place where you pick out your meat from the BBQ then go inside and choose which side dishes and drinks you want and they have white butcher paper you eat on as your plate!! The BBQ guys are out starting to fire up the 
grill and BBQ at 6:00 a.m.! As you can see by the pics it is a different place to eat, very interesting. This is the web site: http://www.coopersbbq.com/
2:00 p.m. - We stopped for gas at Sonora, TX. Most of the stations here have gas for $1.99, rip-off city, we are so use to paying $1.50 or so. It is 50 degrees and sunny.
4:30 p.m. - We are at Ft. Stockton, TX for the night, we have had no cell service since we left Sonora, TX until now. We have been in the high desert at 2900 ft. and only a handful of cars and trucks have been on this road. The temp is 46degrees and still blue skies and sun. No wind for a change, all the windmills on 
the mountains are still. The RV campground we usually stay at has quite a few RV's. It is odd seeing all this 
during the daytime 
hours, usually is it dark when we pull in here. We went for a walk around the area after we settled down for the night.
We drove 384 miles today
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