September 5, 2015

We have been on the road all day.  We got up about 7:00 a.m. and visited a little with John and Judy Trolinger as I drank a smoothie before we headed out.  We also read and took showers.  So we finally left their home at about 9:30 a.m.  Larry did not want to eat any of the food we had brought with us to their house so we went to Kerrville and had Breakfast at McDonald’s and then started out.

We leave with a heavy heart as John did not seem like he could survive his cancer much longer.  We actually think that this might be the last time that we will see him alive and he told Larry that he felt the same way also.

John and Judy in front of their home as we left

 As we have driven along we have looked at some of the things that Google suggests for each town as landmarks, we read some more scriptures in our New Testament Study and looked at the countryside.  Right now we are just outside of Lamesa, Texas .  The area that we are going through for about a half a day seems to be heavy in raising cotton.  There are lots of Cotton fields with the old grasshopper oil well pumps in the middle of them.  There are lots of great big machinery and buildings out in the fields also.

We have had to stop about every 2 hours because I am a woman who had six kids but we have been able to keep our gas tank topped off and get a few snacks along the way.  We stopped in Big Springs, Texas and ate at Whataburger for lunch.  Now as we drive along I am trying to update the blog so that I can eventually get it caught up.

We decided that we should stop in Roswell, New Mexico for the night so we went online on my phone and reserved a room there.  We are hoping to get there early enough to eat dinner and see a little of the sights.

Unfortunately we just barely got to Roswell in time to eat out at the Golden Corral and go to bed.