Next leg of the trip.......................

Sunday we left Odessa and decided to only stay on Interstate 20 as far as Pecos.  We then took Texas State Highway 285 up to Ranch Road 652 and over to Guadalupe Mountains National Park, a remote rugged wilderness park located in Western Texas.  It was a beautiful drive, if we saw 20 other cars the entire day I'd be surprised.  We thought that we might be able to camp there overnight, but were disappointed to find out that there were no electric hookups.  Now, this wouldn't normally be a problem (we've boondocked many times), we had plenty of water, a generator if we needed short bursts of electricity and a full refrigerator.  The reality was it wasn't as cool as we thought it would be at 6000 feet where the campground sits, and the thought of trying to sleep in a trailer that was 88 degrees inside just didn't fly.  We made a mental note to come back in the spring sometime.  We pushed on to Anthony, New Mexico, just over the border from El Paso and stayed there instead.

The overpass at I-20 & Hwy 285 - the other side is the Texas Flag

Farm to Market & Ranch to Market roads, first opened in 1937

Guadalupe Mountains National Park - over 80 miles of hiking trails