Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - Mexia TX

Texas State Railroad, Rusk, Texas, January 8, 2008

I'm usually successful at resisting the urge to wash my vehicles. I've been practicing my resistance for years with considerable success as my friends can attest. Guess I'd better practice some more. Those rain god sprinkled the first hundred miles or so of the days travels, starting with a good sprinkle right at the campground. Well done.

Crossing the Sabine River

Another river has been crossed and I've left Louisiana behind and am now well into east Texas.

Gas mileage update

I'll refine this comment more after I fill up tomorrow morning, but it looks like I was optimistic in my assessment of LD's gas mileage improvement after the new catalytic converter was installed. I filled up today in Mansfield, Louisiana and computed 8.15 miles per gallon from that tank. That averaged with the 13.0 mpg of the previous tank yields about 10.5 which is a more reasonable expectation for these easy miles. Even at that that's still a solid 20% increase over my pre catalytic converter average. I'll take it.

Later: The next 6 tanks of fuel after the new catalytic converter was installed yielded an average 9.33 mpg, about 10% better than LD's pre catalytic mileage of about 8.5 mpg for the trip. That's a more realistic improvement and quite welcome.

Night Camp

Wal-Mart Parking Lot in Mexia TX

Wal-Mart Supercenter in Mexia TX

Wal-Mart Supercenter, 1406 East Milam, Mexia, TX 76667 - (254) 562-3831

• Verizon cell phone service - I don't recall
• Verizon EVDO Broadband service - I don't recall
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