Friday, April 30, 2010

Our Texas Hill country rally and adventure







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Hi to all,

We left Lubbock on the 8th of April heading to Bandera, Tx in the middle of Texas Hill country. Stopped by Chuck and Susan Lewis's new home in San Angelo very near the State park there. We spent several hours with them talking about old times. Chuck and I worked together for 30 years.
We spent the next 4 days at South Llano State Park south of Junction, Tx. This is a very nice park for hiking and birding.
Next we went to Garner State Park near Uvalde and spent 3 night there. This a old CCC park built in the 1930s. This park feature over 500 sites an has been a generational rec spot for many. The Frio river flows through it.
From there we went to Lost Maples State natural area. Features a big grove of Big Tooth maple trees and a lost of scenic hiking trails. While we were there, it rained very hard and closed all the roads outside the park. Mostly the low water crossing but the road to Bandera was closed by a rock slide. We left on Sunday for the 45 minute scenic drive on highway 337 to our annual rally at Bandera. Our 7 days went quickly at the rally. We renewed friendships and met new people as well. We also visited our neighbor from Lubbock Donna who now lives in Kerrville.
At the present time we are camped at Potter Creek Corp of Engineers Campground on Canyon Lake about 45 minutes due north of San Antonio. Very nice place so we decided to extend to Sunday the 2nd of March. We then head to Stephen F Austin State park.
Will try to update when I have time.

John and Barbara on the road again