Home from the trail

Posted on March 15, 2007 | Comments Off on Home from the trail

Still a little dizzy from 6.5 hours on the road to get home from Fort Davis, but it was worth it. Time flies at 90 mph, which you can do on I-10 from about 20 miles east of Junction all the way to Balmorhea. The speed limit is 80 mph but, of course, no one drives the speed limit in Texas or anywhere else. Burns a lot of gas, though. It’s mostly flat land so not many curves to force you to slow down. We were surprised at the big windmills lining the ridges on the north side of the highway from about Ozona to Fort Stockton. Big three-bladed electricity generators, turning briskly last Monday in a stiff breeze, which continued, Lubbock-like, most of the time we were in the Davis Mountains, but finally settled down Wednesday night. So coming back the big windmills were turning more leisurely. More on the trip later.

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0 responses to “Home from the trail”

  1. jdallen's avatar jdallen | March 16, 2007 at 8:25 am |

    I hope you were driving that stretch in the daylight hours. The last time I did it at night is the last time I ever will unless it is absolutely necessary.
    Large mule deer – all over the place. Some (probably deer, anyhow) in pieces smeared out over several yards.

  2. Unknown's avatar Dick Stanley | March 16, 2007 at 9:01 am |

    Yep, all daylight. I don’t think I’d be comfortable at 90 mph in the dark, even on an interstate. Saw plenty of big mule deer around Fort Davis, but no dead ones that I recall on I-10–just small mammals of immediately-indeterminate species.

  3. tom ringwald's avatar tom ringwald | March 17, 2007 at 9:28 am |

    Dick,
    Welcome home. Can’t believe you made it back from Ft. Davis without hitting at least one armadillo.
    Tom

  4. Unknown's avatar Dick Stanley | March 17, 2007 at 10:54 am |

    Somehow we managed it, Tom. Only dead animals in the road that I recall were a skunk, a turkey vulture, and a dog.