August 25, 2019

Mileage:  66,534 Palo Duro Canyon State Park Canyon, Texas

It’s a long way across Texas and it is still HOT!  The forecast for today in Fort Worth is 104 degrees.  Welcome to Texas in August!  We are traveling on 20 West and have been since we left Atlanta.  Here the roadsides are flanked by cotton fields, train tracks, ranches, stockyards, corn fields, hay-fields, oilfields, and hundreds and hundreds of windmills.  The landscape became much flatter and more open as we left the big cities behind.  Lunch was at a picnic area in the Fluvanna Renewable Energy Project.

We stayed at Palo Duro Canyon.  It is the second largest canyon in the United States.  It was formed about a million years ago by the Prairie Dog Town Fork of the Red River and the Texas wind.  The canyon is really pretty. 

This is supposed to be a great place to hike.  The temperature at 7:40pm was 105. 

It was too hot to do much moving, let alone any hiking.  Thankfully we had 50-amp service and could run the air conditioning!  We did take the Jeep out at dusk to see the park.

We did see deer, a cottontail, a turkey, and a roadrunner