January 26

As usual, I dramatically underestimated the amount of time it would take to drive from Junction to the TT Medina Lake campground near San Antonio. The Garmin directed me off I-10 at Kerrville and onto back roads for about 50 miles before arriving at the site. It may have been the shortest travel distance but it sure did not seem to be the shortest travel duration.
We ambled from Kerrville to Bandera, TX on roads that seemed to go in circles, helices, three sides of triangles and assorted whorls before making a 180 degree turn in Bandera and on to Medina Lake which is in Lakehills, TX.
The really strange part was that Lake Medina does not seem to be a lake at all, having the water sucked out of it to feed San Antonio, some 40 miles away. Perhaps it should be called Former Lake Medina, Medina Trench or Medina Dry Lake because the closest water to the campsite requires a drive on not less than two Texas highways to be seen.
The camping area is quite nice and it is lousy with deer, just no lake. Clearly visible in the area are floating docks resting on earth, boat launch ramps that run downhill to drop off to nothing and the upper end of bridges that used to extend to floating docks.

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