Lazy Day

The map stats tell today's story. I-20 west from West Monroe, LA, to Kilgore, TX. 168 miles, 20.9 gals., 8.0 MPG.

We had planned to go as far as Tyler, TX, a whole 200 miles, or 32 miles further, to spend the night. We picked Tyler a., because it is a convenient jumping off place for our planned cross country route to Schulenburg, TX, about 300 miles to the south on I-10, whereby we avoid having to deal with both Dallas and Austin, both traffic challenges, and can use I-10 into San Antonio to exit 582 where we can get the motorhome washed before we head north to Spring Branch for the rally, b., Tyler is a short distance from Canton, TX, an eclectic shopping adventure , and c., we had stayed in Tyler before and are comfortable with staying again.

Unfortunately, when we called to make reservations at the campground, we found that all the local campgrounds were filled with workers called in to deal with the aftermath of last fall's refinery explosion.

When MMG suggested we stay in Kilgore, I readily agreed, thinking we might see some of these
young ladies:

The Kilgore College Rangerettes

Instead, I got to see this:

Ornamental Drilling Rigs on "The World's Richest Acre"

Kilgore claims the "world's Richest Acre" because of the number of producing oil wells that were drilled on just one acre within the city limits. At one time in the 1930's, there were 1100 producing wells within the city limits. Some are still pumping!

The scenery on the way from West Monroe returned to rolling wooded hills. To get an idea of what we saw, just take yesterday's picture and change the light greens of the hardwoods to the dark greens of the Piney Woods.

Perhaps tomorrow we'll see some more interesting stuff.

Stay Well!

MMG and DDG