Day 33 - Friday 8/30/13 Tucson, AZ - Ft. Stockton, TX (556 Miles)

Tucson AFB

Where is Fort Stockton you ask.  The hell if we know, but it was the only place that actually had buildings, some of which rented rooms, at the end of our drive today from Tuscon on our way to San Antonio.  Actually, it seems to sit in the middle of oil fields and wind farms on the flattest, straightest piece of road I've ever driven.  At times today, you could look in any direction and not see anything breaking the plane of the horizon.

Does anybody know what kind of grasshopper this is?
It has a blue head, red spotted wings,
a very long body and is about 2" long.
It's the larges grasshopper I've ever seen.

But, to rewind the day, we began in Tucson with an interesting drive through the middle of an air force base there.  What made it so interesting were the hundreds of mothballed planes being stored there, including warthogs and C-130 cargo planes, we think.

Dad, you'll also be interested in knowing that your idea of using solar panel arrays to create shade, as well as power, for parking areas is being utilized here.

A sad sight on our way through Texas was the presence of feed lots for beef cattle :-(  We were also sniffed for drugs by the K-9 unit at border patrol near El Paso, TX...it's a good thing that chocolate is our drug of choice!  We did see some suspicious cars and SUVs pulled over out in the dessert, looking like they were waiting to pick up someone coming out of the desert...  Hmmmm.