We woke to another hot muggy day, motivated to stop in at Harbor Freight and buy a generator for off grid air conditioning during hot back country camping.
We returned to the Highway 12 with our new generator in its packing crate, and headed towards Texas with ominous clouds on the horizon.
We drove into a torrential downpour, our visibility severely restricted. Our wipers on their fastest speed, were insufficient to clear the rain off the windshield. Everyone slowed to a crawl with hazard lights flashing. We entered a construction zone with barriers at road edge making a very tight squeeze in the limited visibility.
After a long stressful driving day, we stopped for the night at a Walmart in Beaumont. The high humidity left us drained, and Susan feet like she was suffocating.
Despite another big thunderstorm with more torrential rain, it was still hot and muggy. Susan sat on the trailer steps until midnight gasping for air like a fish out of water.
We couldn’t use the new generator because it needed oil in the crankcase and fuel in the tank before running it through a break-in period WITHOUT any load. Walmart would kick us out of the parking lot if we ran it for our air conditioning. I felt absolutely helpless.
We eventually fell asleep out of sheer heat fatigue and exhaustion.