Today we pull out of Seminole Canyon.  A brutal headwind slows progress to a maximum of 47 miles an hour with Kent’s foot on the floor.  The resulting gas mileage is 3 mpg.  We are not in any hurry to get anywhere so we hold up in Fort Stockton (Roadrunner RV used to be Parkview RV) for the night after just 138 miles of progress.  Better travel weather is predicted for tomorrow.

Fort Stockton smells bad.  It is oil country and that doesn’t help but this seems different, more like sour water or something.  A little research provides the answer; it is from oil production but is as a result of uncapped, played out wells that are spewing putrid sulfur and ick laden water from deep aquafers forming stinky pools.  Seems no one feels compelled to cap or plug or maybe they can’t but this is surely an ugly, unintended, irresponsible consequence of poorly managed oil production.