"Baby Wipe Blues"

Thursday Feb 10. Cielo Ranch driveway to Fort Davis

Desolate scenic rt 118 from Kent past the Mc Donald Observatory to the town of Fort Davis is one of the top rides of the trip.  The route is 57 miles long and has just a sprinkling of very large ranches. I could count the number of trucks I saw on one hand (No cars seen today... it seems there are only a hundred or so cars in the whole state of Texas).  The route does make you work for the spectacular views.  Of the 1st 37 miles from Kent to the observatory about 20 were uphill.

We've been dealing with freezing temperatures and lack of running water from burst water pipes at the RV parks as well as frozen water in the RV ever since leaving Las Cruces on Sunday.  So for the last 4 nights we've been singing Brandon's made up song "The Baby Wipe Blues".  Huggies have been our only method of staying clean but tonight we had a real shower.   I now have an appreciation for hot running water in a way I could not have understood before this trip.