Our trip continues to head East straight through Texas. Leaving the city El Paso to drive too our next destination the Guadalupe Mountains. A couple of hours drive through the desert like landscapes of Texas.
After driving for about an hour we ran into a police immigration checkpoint. No worries for us since we have all of our documents in order.
About 2 min after we left the checkpoint we drove past a sign that said: Next gas station 125 miles. While we we’re driving past I looked at the fuel gauge in our car and immediately thought, Luuk you are an idiot…
I totally forgot to check how much fuel we had left before driving away from El Paso, we quickly stopped on the side of the road to see where the first gas station was to refuel. Damn,.. Almost 50 miles back where we came from, all the way back to the city. We didn’t had any other options than to turn back since we did not have enough fuel to reach the other gas station 125 miles the other way.
This detour took us at least 1.5 hours, but we we’re still in good spirits. Got some strange faces from the police officers after driving through the checkpoint for the second time though, haha
We arrived at the beautiful Guadalupe Mountains and found a great campsite somewhat later that evening. When we we’re looking for someone to change our 20 dollar bill to pay for our tent site which was only 8 dollars, we met a lovely couple who didn’t had enough to break our 20 dollar bill but kindly donated us 8 dollars so we could pay for the camp site.
Guess they won’t be reading this but if they do, Thank you very much!
We set up our tent and Sacha started cooking her famous Spaghetti A la Camping 😊 While eating we got company from a couple of deer’s running by. Living outside and enjoying the beauty of nature doesn’t get any better than this!
We emptied a bottle of wine and quickly hit the sack after an exhausting day. After sleeping for about an hour we both woke up from a slight tapping on our tent, insects?? NO,… Rain! In the desert, lol.
We had a bit of a laugh about it and quickly returned to our sleeping, only to wake up about 5 min later by probably the worst thunder, rain and hailstorm we ever experienced. Within 45 minutes the water surrounding our tent came up to about 10 cm high and started pouring in our tent.
We had no option but to run too our car and find a dry spot to hopefully get just a little bit more sleep. So we did,.. not so comfortable but at least dry. Not the most fun experience but certainly one for in our travelling journal.
