Del Rio, Texas

We are at the Holiday Inn Express in Del Rio, Texas, about 6 to 7 hours away from our home in Victoria Palms.  Can't wait to get there and get settled in.

We had a good start at 1:30 AM this morning until we got about and hour along the Interstate 10.  It is a divided highway and there was not much traffic, weather was good and then we saw it.  Lots and lots of flashing lights across all the lanes of the highway.  We stopped and an officer came over and said we would have to be there until they got the road cleaned up. We were the 1st car to arrive at the roadblock. There was one tractor trailer behind us.   It must have been a horrendous accident.  There were police cars, 3 fire engines, 2 ambulances, highway patrol and then behind them (and us) three more ambulances. An air ambulance helicopter came in and landed. From the little we could see it looked like they were trying to free someone with the jaws of life.  Very scary.  After about half an hour the cops had us turn around and go the wrong way on the On ramp and take a route around the accident and back on the I 10.

After that upsetting start, we carried on and had no problems the rest of the way.  One of the best things along I 10 is the speed limit is 80. That helped make up for some lost time.

When we left Phoenix this morning we were on Mountain time and Arizona does not use daylight saving time so we lost 2 hours on the route to Texas.

Bonnie and Joe on the go to Donna Texas