Cenizo Ranch near Big Wells, Tx

Well, we made it! What an incredibly long day ... a good day, but l.o.n.g. For starters, Sue couldn't get to sleep last night for all the tea in China. She figures she maybe got 2-3 hours ... not good. Of course the gate was busier than normal too, so Wayne only catnapped all night. That means we were both running on empty as we packed up to move out of the Schwope Ranch in the dark. We knew Luke and Inez would be pulling in around 7 a.m., so Wayne woke Sue up at 5:30 a.m. and we both hit the ground running ... sort of. Actually we did pretty well and we were on our way to our new gate just before 7:30 a.m.
I forgot to mention in a previous post that we demolished our back stairs on our way to Schwope, so Wayne was determined NOT to go out the way we came in. He was afraid they would completely fall apart and he would have to disassemble them right on the road. Yesterday when he took a trial run to the new location in the truck with Lucy, he determined the best option would be to take a somewhat longer route up Interstate 35 in order to avoid the troublesome spot. It turned out to be quite a nice ride and we had no trouble whatsoever.
When we were about 3 miles out, an older motorhome passed us going the opposite direction, and Wayne commented that it looked like the couple we were replacing! That seemed odd to us because that would logically mean no one was watching the gate. It was only 8:15 or so and Wayne had told them it would be after 8 o'clock before we arrived. When we turned onto the road leading to our gate, the gate guard couple right at the highway (we are the 2nd gate in here) told us that yes, the couple had left but our boss Roger was at the gate. We felt much better when we heard that.
We drove the final 2 miles back into the ranch to our gate. We found it weird that the first gate says "La Corona Ranch" but apparently our gate is on the Cenizo Ranch. Don't understand that yet, but we assume we will find out how that works at some point. Regardless, Roger helped us get into the proper position, and then left us on our own to set up and set up we did. Actually, we just did critical stuff to begin with as Wayne was looking quite haggard from lack of sleep. We managed to eat a simple breakfast and then Sue ushered Wayne off to bed.

Here we are at the Cenizo Ranch!

This gate is somewhat busy and the gate itself has to be shut at all times. Of course that means we have to physically open the gate every time someone wants in or out. That's a lot of traipsing up and down the trailer steps and to/from the gate, dragging the gate open and then closed again. Running on little sleep herself, Sue is exhausted and ready for bed. There are probably numerous misspelling etc., but this is the best that can be be done for now. Good night!