Feb 8 2010 Ozona, Texas

Love, love, loved the Frank Lloyd Write tour. What a clever man. The tour was excellent. They said he was a very difficult man to work with and apparently to live with too, had 3 wives and many girl friends. He had a movie theatre on the complex and hated latecomers using flahslights so invented isle lighting. Today it is required by law to have isle lighting. He invented the pivotal door, and glass doors and glass mitered corners for glass walls. WOW

From there I went to Ron and Helen's and together went to the James' for happy hour. It was great to visit with them has been many years.

Friday I got ready to be on the road again.

Was up bright and early Saturday and drove from Phoenix to ElPaso, TX. I have been a little concerned about this portion of the trip. At ElPaso there is a boarder crossing into Mexico, that is how close it is and then the main highway follows the boarder south and east for quite some distance. There are all kinds of warnings about hitchhikers. Needless to say I just wanted to get away from the area as quick as possible.

I must say I was amazed that the highway speed is 80 mph which I think is very fast. The other comment I want to make about the highway is how easy they make it to follow instructions when changing freeways. If leaving route 10 to go on to route 5 they actually have the numbers in the pavement so you can't help but know you are in the right lane.

Ozana is about half way from ElPaso to San Antonio. I entertained the idea of just going this far but was still early in the day so thought I would go the whoe stretch. I guess my first thought was the right one as I had stopped at a rest area nearby to discover a problem with the car. Making very strange noise from the back end. So I got into Ozana and have found a repair shop. Ends up it is the wheel bearings so they have ordered parts and I get to stay here 2 nights. This is a little nothing town 5,000 people, no sights, no shopping. Oh well lets me catch up with the computer.

More tomorrow