We went into their "museum" which had meteor fragments from other sites around the world, and only three stone-size fragments from the local meteor. The local meteor has never been recovered as it lies 170 feet below the surface. All-in-all somewhat informative but overall a disappointment. We plan to visit the largest crater in the US on this trip, which is in Winslow, AZ. But they did have a great sign there, which caused us NOT to circumnavigate the crater.
We got back on I-20 and took it to where it merged with I-10 and from there I-10 was called the Texas Mountain Route, winding thru the outskirts of the Davis mountains. Folks out here aren't very environmentally conscious. We saw three things in abundance all along the side of the road, and came up with a title for a country western song: bags, buckets and dead deer. Honestly, plastic bags in the weeds, red, green and grey buckets, and too many dead deer. But the mountains were beautiful, especially since coming out of the flat plains.
We passed the road to McDonald Observatory but there would be nothing to see in the middle of the day. Passed the road to Big Bend NP but wanted to continue on our journey so we bypassed going there, saving it for another trip. Drove by Fort Hancock and Fort Davis, imagining the cowboys droving cattle thru this area in the 1880s.
Very happy to say we had no RV problems and was even able to accelerate on the hills. We arrived at our campground for the next several days, Mission RV Park around 3:45 pm MST (5:30 pm for those of you in the East. Stay warm out there, be careful of the snow. Our weather has been going to 58 during the days and dropping as low as 26 at night).
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