Continuing west in Texas

We left Medina Lake, outside of San Antonio, on Sunday. We didn't have specific plans on where to spend the night -- we wanted to make it at least as far as Fort Stockton (~300 miles), maybe to Balmorhea (~350 miles), or maybe to Van Horn (~415 miles). Now, I realize that if you're thinking about driving a car those distances, you're thinking, "Heck, they are wimps!" -- but it is challenging driving the RV, so we try to stay around 200 miles a day for our max. However, there aren't a lot of places to stop along I-10 once you pass San Antonio, so we knew our options were limited.

West of San Antonio is known as Texas Hill Country (the exit is for "Welfare", so if you want to get on Welfare, I guess this is where you do it!).

Last year, we visited The Cross at Kerrville (https://journeyinamazinggrace.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-empty-cross.html) -- we just saw the cross from the freeway as we drove by this time.

We ended up making it all the way to Van Horn. It wasn't a luxurious campsite, but it had full hookups and was a pullthru. We didn't think there was enough room for others to be able to drive behind us if we left the Jeep hooked up, so we disconnected and parked it next to Gracie. 

It wasn't until the next day when I was looking at the pictures that we noticed what looked like a big wet spot under the Jeep and we got concerned that something may have broken loose in the radiator or coolant system -- so we checked, but it all looked okay. Guess the wet (discolored) spot was there before we parked. Thankful that it didn't indicate a problem with the Jeep!