We jumped back onto Interstate 10 from Fort Stockton and continued our eastward progress toward Junction, TX, our scheduled stop for the night. Although the road between these places did not go over any passes, like the road between El Paso and Fort Stockton, there are about 400 up and down sections running between about 2000′ and 2700′ elevation. To keep things interesting, there were substantial gusting winds up to about 30 mph which kept me constantly correcting for the effect on the Barbarian Invader, our trailer. We got much worse fuel mileage today than yesterday.
After 200 miles of climbing and descending and correcting, we pulled off the interstate in Junction and found our way to the Junction North Llano RV Park where we have stayed before. The park has full hookups, a pool, laundry facilities, automatic gates to keep intruders out and great staff but, currently, no viable wifi and Junction has very spotty phone and data service. The operators run a very nice park and it is always very tidy. They even grade the gravel roads daily. We booked today’s RV spot through Good Sam.
We are old so we like to limit any day’s drive to no more than about 3 hours a day and never staying less than three nights anywhere but crossing from Sierra Vista to Junction confounds our policy. There are massive sections of open, uninhabited land with few places to stay between southern Arizona and western Texas so for the last three days we have far exceeded our preferred distance each day and we have stayed only one night in each place. We are getting ready for a break with an extended stay, laundry and some shopping somewhere.