Jerry Jeff Walker, Here we Come!

Sunday December 7 2008

Uvalde, Texas--West Texas, USA

We rise from a night’s sleep in the Best Western in Uvalde, Texas and head to Big Bend National Park. Not much to report, but did you know that Uvalde’s claim to fame is that it is at the crossroads of America’s two longest non-Interstate Highways: 83 and 90. We’ve been on 90 since San Antonio and will be on it (except for our trip to Big Ben) until we get to the Guadalupe Mountains National Park. It was impossible to find a decent place to eat (many places were closed - Sunday); the topography changed incredibly; and we paid the most we’ve paid for gas on this trip (outside of NY) at $2.24 per gallon in Marathon, TX. Fortunately, we pay $1.40 when we leave in Alpine, Texas.

As we get on the road, we’ve driven 3590 miles and the temp is 51F. Beautiful sunny day to drive. Lovin’ the 75 mph speed limits.

Kudos to Steve Jobs: Somewhere after Uvalde, we pretty much lost radio reception. Except for one really cool west Texas country station, that is. But Debbie made me turn it off. Anyway, before we left New York I copied almost our entire CD collection onto my iPOD. If it had not been for the fact I only had 30 gigs of space, I would have put more. SO, we lose radio reception, big deal. In very populace places with lots of radio stations you can’t find a clear radio station to transmit to with the iPOD. No problem in west Texas, though. We had over 300 CDs (4500 songs) of our own choosing to listen to. Yee-haw! (Actually, thanks to Think Tank 3 for giving me the iPOD a few years ago—xox!) Debbie fell in love with the shuffle option – 4500 options – endless hours of rockin music - what’s not to love?