Mostly cloudy today with the sun occasionally peaking out! It's in the low 80's with 30% humidity.
Since we were driving a short distance today, we didn't leave till around 11:45. Rode our bikes around the park and into Mesilla (next town). I had a nice chat with our neighbors from Washington State. They are full-time RVers and we were talking about as long as we all stay healthy, to keep on enjoying all this travel. I did not get their names, but the lady has only one arm and they told of their story back in 2014 when she went into the hospital for routine heart surgery (adjust valves)? What was supposed to be a 4-day stay turned into 4 months, 4 days and a $6m hospital bill. Everything that could go wrong, did and then some including getting blood clots in her arm which was a matter of amputating the arm or she would die. She said all she could think of is "I'll never quilt again, but yes, take my arm". And she went onto recover and has made 14 quilts since that time. Her husband cuts out the fabric and she takes it from there.
What a remarkable lady and story!
Since I'm on stories, so thankful to hear today that little Caleb (6-year old from IL) is recovering after being struck by a semi outside his home when he and his scooter ventured into the street. He has had 9 surgeries with more to come, but miraculously, he called to his Daddy yesterday and has been watching some TV.
Okay....those are my happy news stories for the day! In light of all the tragedy recently and so much negativity, hatred and violence in our world, just wanted to share these.
We came just 65 miles today and now at the Mission RV Park in El Paso, Texas. We are still in the mountain time zone but that will change tomorrow. We were blown away by the many, many, many Holstein cattle we saw today on confinement farms. While we've seen lots of beef cattle and horses since we've been out west, nothing came even close to what we saw today! Mark grew up with Holstein cattle so he, too, was mind boggled! We googled and found out that along I-10 between Las Cruces and El Paso, there are 30,000 cows on 11 farms located one right after the other!
Daisy badly needed a good scrubbing and since most parks do not allow washing our rigs and since it's so dusty out here in the desert and since we still have so many bugs, it was way past time to clean Miss Daisy. We figured a big city like El Paso would have a truck stop/car wash and sure enough we came upon 4 of them right off the interstate. 4 guys worked on her and 15 minutes later, she looks great!!!
We love when family/friends share a good restaurant we should try in our travels or some other site to see......tonight we were told by Linda in Kansas to check out Cattlemen's Steakhouse near El Paso (Fabens, TX.) It's on the working ranch of Indian Cliffs (16 miles from our campground) and in the boonies. We decided to go early and when we arrived at 5, there were several cars there and they kept coming and coming. We had a wonderful meal - excellent steaks (Mark had ribeye and I had a filet) along with great sides (pineapple slaw and spicy beans are served family style). I had an order of their "sweet" mushrooms - very good. Our waitress was only told they were sautéed in burgundy wine but didn't know what else. YUM! It's a real western-style place (obviously) with friendly staff, great service and delicious food!!! So glad we went off the beaten path and would highly recommend this place! Thanks Linda!
Mark is on his way to a great experience at Cattleman's Steakhouse
Tomorrow we are off to Fort Davis, another recommendation by Mike and Nadine back in Bloomington. Planning to stay there 2 days.
We love when family/friends share a good restaurant we should try in our travels or some other site to see......tonight we were told by Linda in Kansas to check out Cattlemen's Steakhouse near El Paso (Fabens, TX.) It's on the working ranch of Indian Cliffs (16 miles from our campground) and in the boonies. We decided to go early and when we arrived at 5, there were several cars there and they kept coming and coming. We had a wonderful meal - excellent steaks (Mark had ribeye and I had a filet) along with great sides (pineapple slaw and spicy beans are served family style). I had an order of their "sweet" mushrooms - very good. Our waitress was only told they were sautéed in burgundy wine but didn't know what else. YUM! It's a real western-style place (obviously) with friendly staff, great service and delicious food!!! So glad we went off the beaten path and would highly recommend this place! Thanks Linda!
Tomorrow we are off to Fort Davis, another recommendation by Mike and Nadine back in Bloomington. Planning to stay there 2 days.
Sure wish we could magically be back in Bloomington on Friday......Ryan is flying in to speak at CCHS (our kids alma mater) for homecoming in the morning, and that evening at the football game, Liam and Connor's baseball team will be recognized for placing 3rd in the state championship.
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