Day 5 Abilene TX

Hi Friends,   I am so sorry I missed yesterday.  It was the longest riding day and I didn't get to a room at a hotel until 2am.  Let me say again that Texas is a big a** state.  "They got long roads out there . . ." (Chris Rea?)  So let me get started.  Slept in a little but got the free breakfast at the La Quinta Inn by 9.  Then went back to the room and posted Day 4 and slowly got on my way . . .  I will pay for this later :-(

   It was hot, muggy hot, as I pulled out into traffic heading to El Paso still and hour away.  I was going to pass right thru but needed gas.  There is something scary about El Paso . . .Can't put my finger on it, but scary.  I gassed up and never heard a word of English the whole time.  But being fluent in Spanish, as I am, I got along fine at the stop.  Then started to journey through hell. . .

   I cant tell you how the hours passed getting a blast of hot, damp air blowing on you, but not as fun as I anticipated, specially when it started sprinkling off and on for a couple of hours.  But being from Vegas, I welcome the rain, but the steam it created was brutal!

  

The drive to El Paso and all the cattle pens.  And "oww, oww, that smell"

Now there is a Welcome Marker!  They do everything BIG in Texas

There is the one you recognize

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But you gotta love THIS!!!!

But the view out each side was like this for HOURS!!! About as boring as you could find

   Then I pulled into Pecos TX. Home of the famous Judge Roy Bean... For my students, the actual place is Langtree TX but they re-created his famous saloon. And a good looking museum 

   Here are a few great shots of this quaint place

A great RIDE!!

Look familier?

Snake, This one is for you to match, or whatever game you play....

How do you like the inscription???  I want that on my tombstone . . .

The shops across the street . . .

   Then to trip really begins.  I pull out of there about 7:30 Vegas time, not realizing it's 9:30 Texas time. . .  I have in my mind ABILENE still about 5 hours away.  Now my brother Snake is giving me every reason to stop, "most motorcycle accidents happen at night", "too many things laying in the road", "there was a guy who hit dropped cardboard and died", you catch the drift . . . but I love the night drive!  Cool, no cars, quiet, nothing to look at anyway, I love it.  But I'm glad my bro cares enough to give me advice, whether I want it or not. ;-)  Love you Snake!

  I pulled into a hotel at 2:15am and called it a day.  Tried to get up and write this blog this morning, but the iPad had "no service"???  I goofed with it but thought it was because I was in the middle of nowhere.  When I got to Ft Worth today, I had time to call AT&T and got it working.  OK, I'm calling it a night.

Luke Out