We woke up this morning expecting the worse, but we were pleased to see that although there had been 2-3 inches of snow overnight, it had not settled on the road, nor was there any sign of ice. This meant that we should have a fairly safe trip weather wise.
After breakfast we headed off to the I-10 again, we were leaving quite a snow storm behind us for a couple of miles as there was no way I was going to brush the snow off the trailer roof!
I know for most of you 2″ of snow isn’t much, but in Texas it is enough to delay school opening for a couple of hours, below are some pictures just after we set out.
Again we started a gentle climb, topping out at around 3900 feet. The temperature slowly climbed from -1°C to 8°C.
We ran out of the snow after an hour or so, and had clear blue skies. We would climb a little and then cross a large plateau, then climb again and repeat the process. There were three or four ranges of hills / mini mountains that we crossed. The plateaus either had crop fields, oil fields or cattle. Well oilfields maybe a slight exaggeration, they were fields with small single arm pumps bringing oil to the surface and collecting it in storage tanks.
We gained another hour as we moved into the Mountain time zone, and then we started running close to the Mexican border. I was glad to see that they too had snow!
We arrived on the outskirts of El Paso to find it was a large and busy city if the traffic was anything to go by. We arrived at the camp ground around 2:15 and got the trailer set up. Things are looking up, the satellite took less than 5 minutes to tune in!
We still have a couple more days of coolish weather to endure, but then we should at least get up into the 60’s.
All this cold weather is due to one of California’s RRR’s (Ridiculously Resilient Ridge). Google it!