Davis Mountain State Park, Texas
November 26, 2018
We are so glad we obtained an electrical spot as the evenings are very cool in the mountains and we can run our little heater. It’s a cool morning we wake up to, but you can see the sun shining on the mountain tops. Chris makes the usually morning perked coffee as I snuggle under the blankets waiting for the little space heater to warm the inside of the RV. The park has Wifi but it’s out of range where we are parked. After coffee we head up to the interpretive center where Chris works on uploading his blog and I try to get on Facebook, guess they have the sites restricted because I have no success.
We head back to the RV to have breakfast and get ourselves ready for the big cycle up to the McDonald Observatory, the first time I’ve ever visiting one.
The sun is shining though a bit cool as we cycle the highway up to the top of the mountain. Now I’m not doing to bad to start out, but as the road winds up and around I find I have to get off and walk up a bit. I’m use to cycling flat roads not up a mountain. After about two hours, with lots of huffing and puffing, due to the thin mountain air, I finally make it up to the Tourist Center. Chris who has been cycling for years of course has no problem and makes it seem effortless. I only started riding in 2014 so it was a lot of effort for me.
The visitor center is not at the top of the mountain, they have tours that take you up there for there shows, some night time tours. We decide that the next tour that starts at 2.00 PM will not give us a safety net of cycling back down the mountain in the daylight, so we have a hot chocolate and cookie in the Cafe first. Then wander around the center with all it’s space paraphernalia. Outside the area is marked by a huge sundial, we think perhaps on our way out we will come for the tour up to the top and start our descent down the mountain. Going down is a lot easier then cycling up a mountain. Before i know it, the pedometer is showing 16.9 miles in record time for me at least. The ride up was 11.6 and that took two hours the fide down only took an hour, with me only getting off once to walk up for a bit for a total ride of 23.4 miles.
Sundial outside visitors center
A nice cup of tea and a lounge in the chair taking in the sun was in order. Later is was a walk up to the bathroom for a nice hot shower, felt good to be clean. As I’m sitting inside the RV waiting for my hair to dry, I start to feel the cooling air of the evening wrapping the inside, so i shut the doors and turn on the heater. I still have a little cough from time to time, and it's a little wet, I hope a cold is not in the works.
Dinner is a hearty Chicken cacciatore with Pasta, a good meal to fuel back up on after a long hard cycling day. No pigs came to visit this night and after a few games of crib we call it a night.
Davis Mountain to Van Horn, Texas
November 27, 2108
We are up early this morning and having decided not to take the trip up to the observatory, not a good idea coming down that mountain in the dark as there is no place to park the RV for the night, we start packing up after breakfast.
Chris want to drive up to the scenic outlook before we leave. I have my video going on the camera. Once again the hair is raising on my arms as we make our way up the twisting road, with u turns of 15 miles per hour up to the top. It was well worth the trip as the view from up there is gorgeous, and the trip down not as bad since I didn’t have a camera in my shaking hands.
A stop at Porters Food Store in Fort Davis to stock up and then we decide to stop at the Fort but we didn’t stay long as it wasn’t much of a fort and there was a fee to walk the grounds.
On the highway again we make it to the Pilot at Van Horn, Texas where we do laundry, check out the free wifi. I’m looking for an app for my camera, but the wifi is too slow to download. Chris gets his blog up, clothes dry and folded we head back for a overnight in the RV.
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