Post #5: Newbie Learning #689

Greetings from Fort Stockton, Texas somewhere in Southwest Texas where the land is flat and the winds blow and cars are few.  We arrived here tonight at 5 PM from Las Cruces, NM where we had a major Newbie learning.  Last night after writing the post #4 to the blog I noticed that my PC wasn't charging.  Further investigation lead to the realization that the outlets had no juice and the refrig was cooling on LP vs electric.  I spent a panic moment searching the Airstream manual on what to do???  After looking at the fuse boxes and finding nothing unusual I decided that a call to Airstream the next morning would point me in the right direction and we headed to dinner & Margaritas.  Appropriate response...right??   Luckily we had met our neighbors in the next site who were driven a huge motorhome with car in tow that they had just bought and driven from Toronto.  (Newbies as well)  They were having problems with their heater only heating with LP vs switching to electric.  The following morning after my pleading call to Airstream in which the VM said they would respond in 24-48 hrs, I realized that the problem was more serious when I checked the trailer batteries...nearly zero.  I realized that we had NO electric entering the trailer and the thought of staying Las Cruces forever suddenly crossed my mind....I went out to see if I could identify anything in the furnace compartment and ran into my neighbor walking her dog.  She suggested that her husband could help and asked him what to do.  He leaned out the door of their RV and said..."Did you flip on the breakers at the box?"   "Box, What box" says me.. "The box next to you".  Realizing that not only do you have to plug in the trailer with a 30 AMP plug but also flip 2 breakers was a total Newbie learning!!  Voila  lights and electric!!  The thoughts of Las Cruces forever faded quickly and we packed up, made fresh coffee in the Bodum and headed for Fort Stockton.  As Christopher told us as we left: "Its the journey and not the destination" so we are taking each day and every Newbie learning as we continue our sojourn Eastward.
As for the trip today, the one thing that hit us constantly is the expanse of land and open sky known as the Sovereign State of Texas.  We drove nearly 300 miles in Texas today with many many trucks and few cars, houses,  animals or people.  Just the open sky and grasslands.  Its truly a huge and dominant geographical force in our country.  I can understand why people who live out here have major issues with the East Coast as well as their feeling of intrusion by Washington, DC.  People truly live here in the open and free sky.
Will load some pictures from Las Cruces (night and day) and some sites along our way as well as the evening here in Fort Stockton.  Tomorrow we head to San Marcos and surely some additional learnings for us Newbies.