June 1st found us on our way to El Paso, TX. for the job. My work as a Project Manager for a lighting company takes us all over for different projects. I am currently pretty busy retrofitting the lighting in several dozen movie theaters all across Texas. We traveled to El Paso for two of these theaters.

While in El Paso we stayed at the Fort Bliss FamCamp, an RV park for active duty and retired military members. The park at Fort Bliss is very new and very nice. We spent four days there while working the two theaters and since the theaters are worked at night we where able to see some of the local sights during the day.

El Paso is a fairly large city that is wrapped around a mountain to the north and squeezed by the Mexico border to the south. Sitting above the city on the southern end of the ridgeline is a series of transmission towers. One of these towers was built using a cable car system that transported workers and supplies up to the mountain top.

While driving through the city we spotted this cemetery alongside the interstate. What caught our attention is the condition, because El Paso is so hot and dry the cemetery does not have any grass or plants. It surrounds a separate cemetery that receives much more attention, it has very lush, green grass and plants and looks like an oasis surrounded by a desert.

After El Paso our next set of theaters was in the Lubbock and Plainview area of Texas. We spent five days in this area, three of them at an RV park just east of Lubbock in an area called Buffalo Springs Lake. It was a nice park alongside a lake and was reasonably priced. The last two nights where spent at the KOA - Lubbock northwest of the city.

When these theaters where finished we travelled up to the office in Norman, OK to visit and drop off the paperwork. We then went down to Treetops RV Village, our favorite RV park in the DFW area. We had planned to spend a week or so here while we waited for the next series of theater jobs to start. Just after arriving my father called and told me he and my younger brother Mike where going to take a trip in his Majestic Class C from California to New Mexico. They wanted to go to Roswell then planned to go look for UFO's near area 51 in Nevada. Since Joan and I where idle for a few days we met them in Las Cruses and spent fathers day weekend visiting White Sands and Roswell.

Our next set of theaters was to begin in Texas City near Houston so we headed to Galveston to wait. We started this series of nine theaters that took us along the gulf coast of Texas from Galveston to Brownsville, then Del Rio, San Angelo and Midland before we returned to Treetops in mid July. More about this trip next month.