The half day is because we spent yesterday getting a head start. This is the first time we won’t spend two nights in the state of Texas on a New Mexico-Louisiana trip. It’ll possibly be the last one too all because of our Carlsbad Caverns side trip.
As you can guess, we stopped at a Buc-ee’s. Actually we stopped at two of them, Baytown and Luling, thereby making up for zero stops at one on the Nov-Dec trip. There were 3 along our I-10 route, but we skipped the Katy one because it was only 50 miles from the first one. There were nature breaks at both, and there was some shopping done, but the only purchases made were drinks for me at each and gas at one for the Tucson.