We got away from the Guadalupe Mountain National Park about noon and headed east. We took US 180 to a small gray road on the map Ranch Road 652 whch went cross country with lots of desert and a few oil wells. We picked up US285 at Orla, Texas and picked up SSR302 and them US385 into Midland, Texas.
The roads were fairly good and the terrain was fairly level with a few hills, but just rolling hills, no mountains. The closer we got to Midland the more oil wells we saw. Several were pumping and a lot of big trucks were on the road moving tanks, etc.
We could see in the distance a long ridge and the closer we got to it we could see that it was covered with wind generators, it looked like a hundred or more. They are really huge once you get close to them and the blades move very slowly, but apparently furnish a lot of torque to run the altenators.
We are currently located at the Midland Lions Club where the hamfest will be on Saturday. We will set up tomorrow afternoon and get ready for the hamfest to open at 8am on Saturday.
The photo is of the mural on the side of the Lions Club building. It is really a large facility and they apparently are very much involved in the eye glasses portion of the organization as they have several units that go out and fit eye glasses.