Day 26: Mesquite-Mineola

This was one of the warmer days we have had in awhile and the most characteristic observation was the continuing greening of the landscape but an increasing headwind and the roughest road conditions of the trip took much of the joy out of it. At mi 57 we had lunch in Grand Saline where Morton still mines salt creating huge caverns deep within the earth. There is a visitor center in town, 'The Salt Palace' made of large stones of salt cemented in place to create a building with pictures of the large underground caverns that Morton carves out underground. At mi 70 in Minneola there was the colorful Kitchen Restaurant where many stopped to have hand-dipped Blue Bell icecream. Our accommodations are in Smith Chapel United Methodist Church. The church added showers in their new fellowship hall addition just for Wandering Wheels. There are serving dinner for us tonightand the children are performing music for us afterwards. Such is the generosity we encounter along the way.