Sunday, May 11, 2008

We had no television at the campground... maybe the antenna booster is going bad. I walked up to the bath house and saw lightning about and heard some weather radios. So when I got back to the trailer we listened to our weather radio. Very hard to understand what the announcer was saying. We finally figured out where most of the counties and cities were that he was talking about. Too many people were in the camping area to cram into the bathhouse for shelter. We would probably drown in the ditch. We finally decided that underneath the concrete picnic table was our best bet... no worries about a concrete slab for our graves... just add the dates :-) There was some wind in the campground and a few drops of rain... everything skirted around us.


Frank awaken in the morning to the sound of a train... he thought tornado.. then realized there was also the sound of a whistle.


We went for our walk this morning after breaking camp (site E28) and left at 8:30 up the pig trail. We filled the gas tank at $4:29 a gallon in Texarkana. Of course several miles down the road we saw cheaper gas.... the way it is sometimes.


About a mile before reaching Blossom Texas we stopped at a roadside park to stretch our legs. Across the road was a buffalo ranch. Frank missed seeing the buffalo... he was looking for the turn to the roadside park. There will be more to see soon.


We stopped at Sherman Texas for dinner. We bought baked catfish dinners at the Catfish King Restaurant. It was okay... but nothing special... we should have gotten the fried catfish.


We were going to stay at a Corp of Engineers campground at Dennison. But there was not an attended gate and we did not feel comfortable staying there. We got gas at Dennison for $4.20 gallon.


We went back to highway 82 and got on 377 and are staying at Corp of Engineers campground called Juniper Point. We think it may be the one we spent some time at when we were stationed at Ft. Sill Oklahoma. Years pass and the memory fades...


We arrived at about 2:45 pm (Ga Time). When we were going back up to the office to tell the attendant what site we picked a man stopped and told us that the front tire on the passenger side of the trailer was low on air. Yep... a tire for Frank to change. The small hydraulic jack we have wouldn't lift the trailer, so Frank had to use the truck's jack. The tire has a nail in it. We'll have it repaired in Lawton Oklahoma.


The water hookup is a ways away from the trailer... so a couple of hoses needed. Frank had to add to the electrical cord too. The Corp of Engineers book lies... no showers or flush toilets. The toilets are up a very steep hill. The toilets is are housed in a snail-coil fashion building over a hole... which I think goes directly into a septic tank. The shower is in our trailer :-)


Highway 82 is The Good, The Bad and The Ugly... sometimes the road is good, then bad and beat you to death ugly. There were stretches of all today.


The roadsides had beautiful wildflowers. Queen Annes Lace, poppies... other varieties of wildflowers were flowering in shades of blue, purple, pink and yellow. One field that was growing grass for hay had lots of yellow flowers in it... so very pretty. There were more horses and cattle in pastures... a few donkeys and mules too. Frank said we should have stopped and cleaned the windows of the truck and video taped some of it... I need a refresher course on the camcorder :-)


A lot of families are here enjoying the lake (Tahoma). They are fishing and boating... tube riding and swimming. It feels too cold to me to do the latter two. No ac needed in the trailer. The windows are open and I'm sitting here freezing :-)


Frank got a couple of good pictures of a Scissortail Flycatcher. He also took some good pictures of a yellow bird... we don't know what it is... it seems too large for a warbler. I tried for a picture of a pair of Downy Woodpeckers but the backlighting was harsh... maybe I can get it better with editing.

David called to wish me a happy Mother's Day. It was good to talk with him.

We traveled 228 miles today.