Winter in Texas

Texas, along with most of the other states, is experiencing the cold grip of winter!!!  While taking the dogs for a walk, I discovered a puddle turned to ice.  Makes for chilly camping!!  We are a little concerned about our pipes freezing, so we are really hoping for warmer weather soon.

We had an overnight stop in Fort Stockton, Texas, and Lordsburg, New Mexico.  Not a whole lot in this area besides desert scrub brush.  Most of the towns we have driven past consist of run down houses and trailers.

Driving through El Paso was an interesting experience.  It lies along the border of Mexico, so on one side you see the American businesses and homes, and across the barrier, up the hill in Juarez, Mexico, are poorly made houses and shacks with dirt roads.  We were listening to the radio, and learned that the crime rate in that Mexican city is huge – the number of murders last year was in the thousands.  The presence of border guards was much more obvious in this area!