Friday as we drove north through San Antonio and into the hill country our climb was greater than we realized. San Antonio's elevation is 650 feet and Midland's elevation is 2782 feet.
North San Antonio is growing fast in the hill country. From the interstate we could see many huge homes built on the hill sides. The land was rocky with lots of trees. As we drove farther north the trees were shorter and quite dense at times (4-5 feet high). There were areas of wide open prairie land with scrub grass, cactus and shrubs, very desert looking.
As we drove farther the soil became much darker and was being farmed. We saw lots of irrigation equipment in the fields. In some of the areas the ranches were very far apart and housing could not be seen from the road. So far our travels in the state of Texas have been on roads in wonderful shape, even the farm roads and side roads.
We spent the night in San Angelo at the KOA campground.
We don't usually stay at KOA's but we read some reviews and decided to try it. We were pleased with our stay. The sights are rather close, but we were at the end of a road and no one was parked beside us. There was a road next to the park which many of the locals were using for jogging and walking. Allan took advantage of that. Everyone was friendly. What I saw of San Angelo, I was impressed.
It was raining today when we arose from a sleep to such a clatter of Katie scratching the mirror wanting us to get up. She didn't want to move, just wanted food. Katie is actually traveling with a good attitude. She doesn't want to get in the truck, is ok traveling, but as soon as we stop at our next overnight stay she wants out. We had strong cross winds today (35-40 mph). Allan was really having to work to keep the truck and trailer in the road. By the time we arrived in Midland the rain had stopped. We found the Teen Challenge facility with no problem and got set up.
There are four other RV's here. We are parked close together, but we have full hookups. There is one other volunteer who is staying in a cabin. All of the volunteers are from North Dakota and Colorado. After we got set up we drove into Midland to check it out and get some lunch/supper. We made a quick stop at Walmart, too.
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Sorry it took so long to answer your questions. Somehow I have the comments kind of hidden from me so I don't get them very regularly. The National Finals is one of the best rodeo's I have ever been to and over the years I have been to a few. Well worth going and yes every event, every night. I like to go to all the go-arounds but then I am a rodeo junkie. The last night is of course the best, that is when the champions are usually decided. You can get tickets anytime and probably the sooner you make the arrangements the cheaper they will be. If you just want to catch one of the early go-arounds they will certainly be a lot more reasonable than the last few though. Enjoy and thanks for visiting my blog.
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