San Antonio to Laredo; Last day in the US

Rib eye steak tonight! Mmmmmmmm. One thing about Texas, they raise tasty cows! One of the best steaks ever, sweet potato, asparagus cebollitas (small onions sort of like overgrown spring onions), mushrooms cooked on our Grill It, a stove top grill.

New neighbours tonight, a couple from Australia who had purchased a large 5^th wheel trailer in California and then traveled around Canada and northern US to the east, then south and now west again. They will then ship the 5^th wheel home. I forgot to ask about the pickup!

Wednesday morning we finished packing up, checked with the vet—Tia's urinalysis came back normal across the board. We had the clinic fax a copy of the report to us at the RV Park office for her records.

We pulled out of the park at 10:30 but stopped to fuel up next door ad were on the highway by 11:00

An uneventful drive south on the I-35 had us at the Flying J just north of Laredo by 1:30 where we topped up again, another 14 gallons, averaging a little over 10 mpg. (US gallons).

We decided to overnight here and get (maybe) an early start to Mexico in the morning.

This morning as Art (why does it always happen to him) opened the cupboard above the driver's seat the support strut broke! A closer look showed that the strut was OK, it was just the rivet connecting the strut to the bracket. Hoping that the stuff in the cabinet wouldn't fall on his head we just carried on.

We parked and leveled alongside a semi bob tail (just the tractor, no trailer). The driver was startled to see our rig start to tilt! He was impressed with the leveling jacks and said he wanted a set for his truck! Then he saw the satellite Dish setting its self up!

Once the dogs were walked and the dust settled Art decided to fix the strut—he had a pop rivet tool so it was a quick fix. We then realised that we had no spare struts in the rig! In our previous one we carried several. Now we are hoping that no more fail. There are fifteen overhead cabinets in the rig with top hinged doors. We really don't want them coming open at the wrong time!