There are no words for the various heat records we encountered today driving through Texas! Early morning we received a great gift-----we were getting 10 miles to the gallon! While stopped in Vernon, TX and handing over $300.00 to fill up our RV's thirsty tank---we had to pull into a WalMart parking lot to repair Jerry's rear view mirror that was shaking during the 30 mile an hour winds we encountered in 108' weather today. Naturally, Jerry can work on everything including a broken mirror base while standing on steaming asphalt as I tried to shield him from the blazing sun with our golf umbrella's!
After about an hour and a half we both got back into the cool RV and headed towards Amarillo, with the wind blowing against us we were actually getting 3 miles to the gallon! Needless to say, we will probably have to fill up again tomorrow!!!
We arrived in Dumas, TX where we are in the "2nd best RV park in town, "as you can see the Tumbleweeds are plentiful and you can see for miles! As Jerry was moving the tumbleweeds out of the line of the electrical and water hook ups, he raised one of the panels below and it fell off the hinges!!! We were thrilled it didn't fall off between Amarillo and here! This heat is not only melting our money, but it is melting the screws out of the RV!!!!
We are shooting for Golden, Colorado tomorrow and hopefully it will not be quite so hot. We are hoping to get up the mountains without any other items falling off our RV!!!! We are staying nice and cool inside, drinking lots of cold beverages to stay hydrated and getting on WIFI when we can.
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