As in “Here we go ’round…”
I didn’t buy fuel yesterday so I checked for a good stop along my path today and found a Valero right at an intersection of the the freeway. I like Valero because they have diesel at almost all their pumps so I don’t have to guess which one to pull up to. This one was a left off the freeway then a left into the station. I can do that. Except there’s a curb between me and the station so I have to go past it and find a place to turn around. Here we go ’round…
I go through a Chili’s parking lot and find myself next to Krispy Kreme. Managed not to stop there, though. So out that driveway then in the next one to the station. There are three pumps in a row. There’s a vehicle at the far one. The driver in front of me stopped at the near one instead of pulling up to the middle one. So I turned off my engine and waited for her to pump her gas. I’m retired, I have time to do that, right?
Once I got fuel I had to drive all the way around the station back to the driveway I came in so I could cross all the lanes to get into the left turn lane to get back on the freeway. Here we go ’round…
My van is in dire need of a bath. There’s a Blue Beacon Truck & RV Wash on the east side of El Paso. I like that company. So that’s what I set my GPS for this morning. It got me off the freeway one exit before I needed to and took me through some back roads to get there. Here we go round…
Only to find the sign painted out and another one saying “Hand Wash.” I don’t want hand wash; I want power wash. To get all those bugs off the RV without scratching the paint. So, no, not here and now.
I still haven’t bought groceries and there’s not a lot ahead of me as I drive through West Texas so I decide I’d better do that before leaving El Paso. The nearest Walmart is, of course, behind me. And my GPS thinks I am more like a truck than a car so it sends me the long way around instead of through residential neighborhoods. Here we go ’round…
Groceries bought I am ready to head on east. Except El Paso likes to move it’s freeway exits so I miss the one for I-10 east. No problem I’ll just get on I-10 west and come back at the first exit. Except that exit is closed. So I go one more. About five miles west then back again in order to go east. Here we go ’round…
By now, I am ready for lunch. I see a sign for Denny’s and decide that will do just fine and take that exit. It turns out to be right across the freeway from the no longer Blue Beacon. I went in a big circle to get here. Here we go ’round…
Finally, I am headed to Van Horn, Texas. Which is probably all the further I am going today given how much time I’ve spent not going places. But, that’s OK; there’s a park we like in Van Horn where I can sit a couple days if I need to do so because of wind gusts.
Except, when I get to Van Horn, there is a gate across the park’s driveway with a for sale sign on it. So I drive on down the main street. And see an RV park just as I pass it. But it’s on a side road so I turn in there then have to drive the wrong way through a campsite to get to the office. Here we go ’round…
I think I have to stay here three nights because of windy conditions the next few days but I’m not sure I’m going to like this park so I only paid for one night. Wonder what tomorrow will bring?
TTYL,
Linda
oh, ha…. I’ve been there so many times, Linda… Hahaaaa… I’ve even ended up in a cemetery … what? didn’t look like no WM to me! and the exits closed? … my favorite… at least I was in Homer and nothing larger …
tomorrow will bring tomorrow .. a new adventure … maybe a tumbleweed will tumble out to see ya. You are not in my favorite part of the world… you going to take 20 up I reckon? oh, right… seems you said you were going on in to Austin… ah
Wow! Don’t you just hate it to make so much effort to find one place only to discover it’s really not there. Sounds like you’re having quite a trip. At least you can sit and get prepared for the next leg. We’re following you.