I am sorry I have not updated my blog in quite some
time. I started on some new medicine
that has made me feel pretty sick the last two weeks but I am finally,
evidently, adjusting to it because I am feeling myself again.
We left the Escapees Park in Livingston on April 7th
and headed to Nacogdoches – about an hour from there – a really long travel
day! We were originally headed to Topeka
for a funeral but I just did not feel well enough to travel that far, so that
is as far as we got.
We stayed at Shady
Pines RV Park right off of Highway 59.
Their weekly price was $100.00 with full hookups so we stayed a
week. The spots were extremely close
together and not a park you’d want to be in if you planned to spend any time sitting
around outdoors because of the closeness of the rigs. Also, being so close to
the highway there was a lot of noise. It worked for us though, because for the
most part, I slept the majority of the time we were there. No TV stations to speak of using the antenna either, so we read a lot, which is how we spend most of our free time anyway. Clark is not a big TV watcher and we both love to read.
The park was located right behind CC’s Smokehouse. In fact, that is where you pay for your
spot. We got there at lunch time so we
decided to eat lunch there since we were there anyway to pay. They serve what they called a Cowboy steak. It was
a 10 oz sirloin which was pretty thin so quite large in diameter. They served it on wax paper right on a tray
and that was your plate with your fries right alongside. It looked so odd to see people cutting a
steak on a plastic serving tray! But I
am telling you, that place was jam-packed with men in work trucks. We talked to one guy who said whenever he is
working in the area he always plans his routes to be around CC’s for lunch. It was a busy place the whole time we were
there. Clark ate a smothered hamburger
steak with mushrooms, onions, and brown gravy.
He thought it was pretty darn tasty, but I am not sure he enjoyed as
much as he could have had he not been looking at all of those cowboy
steaks! You know, the grass is always
greener. We did plan to go back there so
he could get one but we never made it.
As I said, we didn't do much since I didn't feel well but we
did make it over to their azalea garden one day. The azaleas were in bloom and there were
paths all through the garden. It was
very pretty. I love azaleas. I even tried growing one a long time ago but
it was just too cold in our neck of the woods.
We saw a lot of beautiful flowers on our trip with all of the wild
flowers that can be found in Texas. The
wisteria blooms are very pretty but the plant itself is spindly and not all
that to look at.
And of course there are those Texas blue bonnets growing wild.
In addition, we were in the Piney Woods of Texas so there were pine trees everywhere.
Overall, a very pretty spring time trip!
