We drove 430 miles across west Texas today. It started out bad. We left at 8. 1604 was a parking lot from a little past Culebra to I10. It took us 45 minutes to go 15 miles. We got less than 8 miles to the gallon.
When we got to I10 a strong headwind came up. We had a headwind for most of the day. All in all we averaged about 10 mpg.
The crummy mileage meant we needed to make a extra fuel stop. It ended up taking 8 hours to make the trip - a whopping 53 mph average.
As usual we stopped to fuel up in Van Horn before going to the rv park. The diesel pump at the station we usually go to was broken. The Love's next door is closed. We drove down the street to an Exxon. It's pump had a broken keypad, so I couldn't use the credit card. Luckily the proprietor let me pump gas and pay for it inside. He didn't even ask for a card.
For all of that it was a good day. Nothing really bad happened.
Once we set up I surfed and watched TV for the rest of the day.
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