From Fredericksburg to El Paso, Texas

It's about 500 miles from Nan & Mike's in Fredericksburg to the Holiday Inn El Paso - Sunland Park. As you'll see from the photos, the scenery changes several times over that many miles.

Nan & Mike's garden shed in Fredericksburg

Mike's nifty deer fence

We left Fredericksburg at 9 AM CST when the temperature was 19F, heading south to I-10 via US-290.

Cedar-lined US-290

Scenes from I-10 (the road that we'll continue on into California - near LA).

 

Texas has many F.M. and R.M. roads - exit sign above.
They are paved farm-to-market and ranch-to-market roads
built starting in 1949 as supportive infrastructure.

Missing is scenery between Ozona and Fort

Stockton.  At 11:15 CST, I took over driving.

The landscape was filled with mesas on both sides

of the road.  Some had windmills in operation

atop them. By Ft. Stockton the elevation was 

over 900 meters and the temperature 55F.

Decorated underpass

Happily you are spared photos of the traffic jams we encountered around El Paso because of construction on I-10.  I was driving that stretch.  We passed into the Mountain time zone before we got to El Paso.  

The next couple of photos are taken from the Holiday Inn grounds.  We arrived here around 4 PM MST.  The mountains that are visible are the Franklin Mountains.

I'm just about over my cold.  Erick is about a day behind me with his.  We put in a long day, but the driving conditions were good - including 80 mph speed limits along much of the route.  The Holiday Inn has a restaurant.  That meant we didn't have to drive to dinner.

More I-10 travel tomorrow - with a midday stop to allow Erick to teleconference with a client.