El Paso, TX - Day 4

Miles 366

We didn't leave as early as we thought we would but we made good time and got up to speed with our itinerary, even a bit past our goal for the day. We are staying at a Wal-Mart Super Center tonight in El Paso, TX. Most of you know WM allows over-nighter's in the parking lot for free. Most  people do their shopping while stopping! We are getting a few supplies as well. The weather was lovely all day, in the 60's, high I believe was 65. No road problems and uneventful.  We stopped for gas in Wilcox, AZ where we bought a hot dog for lunch and went on our way, we actually had two gas stops but I forget where the other one was. We stopped at a beautiful rest stop in John's birth town (Las Cruces, NM) that had a great view of the city and mountains. There was an impressive Road Runner sculpture (state bird) but we moved along since there was a sign "watch for snakes." We saw lots of lovely mountains but no trees to speak of just barren desert and what we always called scrub brush. There were no pretty cactus after we left AZ.