Pecos to Center Point

Yesterday we asked for and got a late checkout. We went to the West of Pecos Museum and spent a little going through the 50 rooms. The museum was originally the Orient Hotel and was built in 1896 of Pecos Valley red sandstone. It was a hotel from 1904 to 1946, across the street from the only crossing of the Pecos River for 60 miles in either direction, which made an ideal location for travelers on stagecoaches to stop and rest. Rooms rented for 25 cents a night with up to 3 people in a bed. Stabling of horses was free. After the hotel closed it became the museum. 

Some of the rooms were occupied by the town doctor (4 rooms), the barber (2 rooms), a church, and a bar, the original room in the hotel. There was a gunfight here and the original bullet holes are still in the wall.

Now the rooms contain memorabilia of the history of Pecos and the surrounding towns. They include the Texas Rangers, Sheriff's posses, Buffalo soldiers, gunslingers, and bank robbers. Local organizations like the Freemasons, International Organization of Odd Fellows, army and airforce posts, Hispanic organizations, Native American groups, womens organizations, local ranches and prominent personages that all made up the history of the area.

Afterward we returned to the RV Park, finished getting ready to depart and left at 11:27 am. We then drove 313 miles insuring cross winds and more beautiful scenery to Center Point, 63 miles northwest of San Antonio. Our GPS had us turn on a "road" which was used to be a road to our new RV Park, but is now an unused path leading to nowhere except a vacated barn in a field. We turned into it between two posts and realized it was wrong, but the path was too narrow to do anything but go forward, in the process getting the sides of the RV scratched by tree branches. We proceeded to the end, drove around the barn thru dips in the field, and continued in the direction we were going before we turned. Lo and behold there was a sign for the RV Park 1/2 mile further down the road.

We arrived after hours, at 5:20 pm (fuel stop included). The park has wide level sites, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, and an indoor hot tub,all alongside the Guadalupe River where campers go tubing in the summer. I was too tired to write anything yesterday and went to bed early.

Today we went to breakfast, The Coming King Sculpture Garden, had lunch, went to Lowes and Harbor Freight, and Nancy did some laundry. As we will be visiting with Mom (96 years young in 6 days) and Marjorie soon, and we've been traveling all over the country, we also had Covid-19 tests (negative).

Not much on the schedule for tomorrow and this is a long blog, so I will end it here.