back on the road again
i'm still going to be in texas today the
next stop uh leaving houston and
today i'm going to fort stockton
uh didn't even know fort stockton
existed until i started mapping out this
itinerary
originally i wanted my next stop to be
el paso
but i felt like that distance was too
long for kuma
i wasn't really sure how she was gonna
handle this road trip so
i'm trying to keep it you know eight to
nine hours a day of driving
she's been doing really great though and
i think she's really enjoying this trip
um she loves the hotel stays uh well
we've done one hotel stay so far but she
loved that hotel
she really really loved home too sweets
and
i mean you could just tell that she was
super excited she was rolling around the
carpet she was running down the hallways
and then this morning when we were about
to go she's like pumped up to go like
let's
get going on our road trip this is gonna
be my third stop
and it's in texas uh it's 492 miles
from houston so six and a half hours
um it's 7 50 a.m and it says i'll be
there at 2 25 pm but
again i always add like an hour to that
so more
like 3 30 i'll be there i feel more
energized today than i did yesterday
yeah yesterday i was just feeling like
crap on the drive in the beginning
because i think i was a little hungover
from just drinking a little bit of wine
just don't do well with alcohol anymore
the next day last night i got
lots of sleep set like a baby and i am
ready for this road trip i almost feel
like i could do way more
than six and a half hours but again you
know i didn't know
how it would go with puma so now i know
that
she can handle long periods of time
in the car
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i've been on the road for a couple hours
now and
um we're gonna be making a stop soon it
just so happens to be bucky's
so it's at exit 632 and
need to just get gas and use the
restroom so i'll see how
clean the restrooms are that they you
know they claim that it's the world's
cleanest restroom
so if it's as clean as busy bees in
florida then i'll be super happy
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so it's 169 per gallon here
hello ready to go for a walk okay
oh my gosh the sign is so funny
to train your dog to do this
that's awesome
nice dog walking area plenty of space
lots of dog baggy stations
okay ready to get going
so this bucky's was actually a lot
smaller than the one i went to
in katy uh it's still big
but it's just it's way too crowded first
of all
um so many people in there and just like
tighter quarters for that amount of
people
and then there's like two uh there's
like two sets of gas pumps
and the one in front of bucky's was all
packed
so i saw that there were more gas pumps
to the side
and there was plenty of room there i
need to go
pay attention but yeah i was just
amazed at how packed it is i guess it is
popular
so i did use the restrooms in there and
it's very clean
but i still like busy bees restrooms in
florida a lot better
because their decoration is so much
better
and it's more spacious um
and yeah there's not enough sinks at
this one this one in particular
uh only had nine sinks i mean compared
to
all those stalls they had and they're
nice things it's not enough everybody so
there was
a line to use the sinks not the
bathrooms but
the sinks so they should have definitely
put out more things there but yeah it's
very clean
and you do get your own stall just like
busy bees and
they actually have hand sanitizer in
front of the stalls but right now they
took that out
with the pandemic going on so they do
have a sanitizer
station before you enter the restroom
so now i'm on my way to my next stop
exit 587 where what a burger is
um about early lunch but
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okay coming up on
my exit 587 i hope it is here
i haven't seen any sign oh my gosh
i couldn't exit the road is closed
well this really sucks
i was really looking forward to that
whataburger meal
dang it i should have stopped at 607.
like i kind of knew it
oh i should you should always go with
your gut feeling
this entire area is like under
construction so they like completely
closed off that exit which
is bs they should have told you to exit
earlier then
oh well we'll see what else i find
it's not going to be as good as
whataburger of course
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i don't like big city driving i'm in san
antonio right now oh my gosh
there's like so many like merges and
like crossovers
take exit 156 on the right onto i-10
west toward el paso
for 311 miles continue straight uh-oh i
think i went the wrong way
there's like so many signs i can't keep
up
i feel like i'm on a regular highway now
where am i
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oh okay
jesus is confusing what
upper level i don't understand why is
there an upper level in lower level
i guess i'm going the upper level
i've never seen that so there's a upper
level
i-10 west and a lower level i-10 list
that's confusing
and i don't understand why there's two
separate ones
okay so yeah i am in san antonio now and
this
is the furthest i've been on
on a road trip on i-10 i didn't really
drive any of that my ex did
so um if you split up the drive
like i'm doing it's actually not that
bad
you know eight nine hours a day totally
handle
so like if you stretch it you know gosh
i think it's like
12 hours from pensacola i can't remember
10 to 12 hours
um that's a long time so
yeah i could see how that could be super
tiring because there is a lot of
flat plants with nothing
for a long time but i actually enjoy
nothing like seeing nothing as well
so i'm actually really enjoying this
road trip and i know
kuma is too kuma really likes road trips
i've discovered
which has always been good on the road
like i said but
this road tripping in particular she's
been really great oh there's a whatever
i think oh it's here and maybe it's b
566p oh my gosh it was right there
it's only two minutes away at the stop
sign
turn right
there it is
super duper excited for my whatever put
that i missed it
so happy camper
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just finished my wonderful meal from
whataburger
and now i'm actually in this area it's
around
mile marker 531 and i just passed little
joshua creek
and uh there's actually mountainous
areas around here
so not all of texas is flat there's
actually some tables i thought it was
all going to be flat
apparently not it's really beautiful
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my ears are actually popping
wow yeah so i'm in the kerryville area
around exit 508
and really gorgeous views
i was not expecting my ears to pop in
texas
yeah the views are getting more
interesting for sure it's not flat
anymore
i just noticed that the speed limit
around here
uh around exit 480 is
80 miles per hour i don't think i've
ever seen that before
so that's 130 kilometers
also just found out that um the largest
state in america
is not texas it's actually
alaska i don't know why
i thought for sure texas would be number
one because
everybody talks about how big it is and
driving through it takes forever
alaska is number one texas is the second
largest state
and the third largest state is
california
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okay going to stop here at exit 456.
junction rock springs amazing
uh they have several gas stations and
fast food joints i'm not hungry we just
need to get some gas
and uh use the restrooms i like cool
mustard out for like
456 has dairy queen sonic
subway pilot gas station
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well that was an interesting step very
it's a pilot gas station they're usually
like huge but this one was
pretty small
two and a half more hours
i actually just got a call from the fort
stockton hotel i'm staying at it's the
best western plus
just to confirm that i was still coming
and i was bringing a pet
uh i've never had that before a hotel
calling me to comfort
but i'm coming so i don't know if they
called to make sure that i was or to
verify that i was bringing a pet
uh and to make sure i knew that there
was like a 20
pet feed like oh yeah 20 that's nothing
i mean compared to the 75
i just pay 20 is super cheap for peppies
i feel like all hotels should charge 20
50 max but really it is hot here this
dry heat
oh man it's like a different kind of
heat i'm from florida
and it's hot there but i feel like the
dry heat gets to me more
it just feels so much hotter yeah i
think it's 100 degrees right now
my dashboard says 99 degrees
definitely feels like it
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all right just had to stop at a rest
stop um
there's like uh three bathrooms in there
three toilets
really proceed to the root small rest
stop but
it's needed uh because for a long
stretch there there was no
uh
rest area to the root okay got it okay
so that was uh to stop that exit
308 or a little bit before 308
a rest area uh i had to go really bad
for a long stretch there there was no
rest stops
no uh gas exits so
i'd say at least 50 miles there was none
unless i just completely missed them or
i wasn't looking
but um yeah finally
that rest area came up and i stopped by
oh cause i was like oh man i only have
about 45 more minutes
left on this drive to reach port
stockton but i wasn't sure
if i could wait that long i mean if i
had to i had to but
so glad it was our mysterio before so i
would say anywhere from
exit 400 to 300 just look out for
restrooms if you need to go because
like i said i was dying for a little bit
there not the type that always has to go
and it's like if i can't go and if i
can't find anything it's like you have
to go even more you know
anyway it all worked out
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in about four and a half miles i'll be
approaching
exit 259b where my hotel is
in fort stockton best western plus
i had really great reviews so that's
what
made me decide to stay here in this area
use the right lane to take exit 259 and
towards state highway 18
and monahan's
burger keep left onto northwest
interstate 10 frontage road
then turn left
in 800 feet turn left onto north front
street
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how do you like the bed yeah i think
it's gonna be nice and comfy
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