Today was a travel day. We left Lake Conroe near Willis, Texas, and continued our eastward trek. Although we crossed I-45, oozing cars back and forth between Dallas and Houston, we stayed off major highways choosing instead to travel through East Texas on primarily farm roads. We did travel for a bit on US-190, an old federal road but all the rest was somewhat narrower.
The countryside between Willis and the Louisiana border is very beautiful with rolling hills, massive oak thickets, huge swamps, beautiful pasture lands and some rich Texans’ estates where they can go to convince themselves they are cowboys despite having no ranch hands, barns or cattle. They do have spiffy houses, though. There are a few more Dogpatch residences here than we noted further west.
After about 150 miles of bucolic wonderfulness, we crossed the Sabine River and the border into Louisiana. We have been in Texas for 51 days on this trip. We must like it more than we figured although we were not real fond of the trailer spring failure and associated damage we had in San Antonio a month ago. Not ten miles further and we pulled into South Toledo Bend State Park which borders the Sabine National Forest and the Toledo Bend Reservoir. The state park campground is right on the reservoir shore and our camping spot overlooks the water, thanks to crafty reservation techniques used by Peggy. The camping spots are large, they have 50 amp power supplies, the water seems okay but there are no sewer hookups. I guess we’ll just use the holding tanks for their intended purpose. The phone works here but the thick stand of tall pines and their lacy canopy surrounding us have eliminated any hope of satellite TV reception. I guess we will be obliged to miss our morning laugh-a-thon listening to reports of the wacky antics of the president and his early morning tweets from the White House crapper.
Transit photos can be seen by clicking here