Left San Antonio really late, nothing went right, had to get inspection sticker. Started to put it off but then realized that we might have trouble in Arizona getting inspection sticker with texas plates. BMW dealer did us a favor and took it right away. I spent some time looking at the R1200RT, 20k with cd changer and no top case. Definately more than our first house. Son Brian and I took turns riding. I get 130 miles before reserve kicks in, Brian gets 112. I only travel at 60 - 65. Saw a bunch of dead deer on IH 10. One deer was huge, about 3x as big as any I had seen, almost as big as a horse. Saw a dead porkepine (sp??) and a lady had stopped and was pulling quills out. I assume they are good for something. I got passed two times by the same harley and about 30 miles before bakersville I made a u-turn to go back for gas. Cut across median where a sign said emergency use only (highway patrol parking zone). I assume that was O.k. Sure enough the Harley rider was there pumping. When I complained about getting only 130 before reserve he said he only got 80-85. We swapped riders and brian drove the next leg, hitting reserve at 102 (I filled up at about 125 and had not had to use reserve. I think he pulled over for about 2 minutes before we caught up with him. I have no interest in visiting courthouses in little towns in the desert so I kept it 75. Terri didnt want to stop in Fort Stockton so we kept going until brian hit that 102 and pulled alongside and said he needed gas. I checked the GPS and the closest gas was over 50 miles, beyond his reserve range. We find a small gas station just outside of balmorea that wasnt on GPS fuel list and he was running on fumes. We got into Van Horn at 9:15 and hit the pizza hut. they put too many jalapenos on the pizza, most we had ever seen and even my wife picked them off. I had never seen her pick off jalapenos before. Decided not to travel to El Paso as it was dark, cold, road construction made us have to share with road with oncoming. Too hard to see with a single headlight and when you get close enough behind a cage to see using their headlights you dont get much time to move if critters pop out or you see an obstruction. There was a couple of spots near some texas size hills where it got down right cold to where my hands were stiff and I attempted to close the hole in the top of my helmet. It was letting too much cold air in. Then, not even 2 minutes later, we got a blast of hot air. There were warnings about cross winds and some were blowing hot desert air it seems. Anyway we will get up early tomorrow and drive to Phoenix. Hope it does not rain. We made 440 miles today and got another 560 or so to get to Phoenix.
