The Piney Woods of TexasDec 26, 2006
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Christmas tree and bigger trees
Christmas Dinner with a few friends
will he make 18 seconds?
| East Texas is not what you expect. It is more similar to Bayou Country than Wild West. The pine forest is high and open. Frequently cattle (including longhorns) graze under the canopy while networks of rivers flow full to the banks. Houses all look like ranch houses. There are many historic sites in the area. We visited Sam Houston's home and the place where the Republic of Texas was born, but the tiny town of Cold Spring near us was just as historic with it's saloons and false fronts and its old jail house and hanging tree. We stayed three weeks at our "Home Park" and watched it rain most every day, but it didn't matter. This park is the friendliest I've seen because everybody belongs to it. Christmas is a good time to reside in a friendly park, too. We had weekly dinners together and the park chipped in for the meat for Christmas Dinner. More great people! In order to be a member of a park discount club (RPI), we have to own a site, and we own one at Timber Lodge. And glad we do. Both because the park is so friendly and the discount club is so very valuable to us. If we stay at an RPI park we pay $8 a night so we stay well under budget each month and they are all fairly nice parks. The climax of our stay was the local New Years Day Bull Riding event. The Juniors started out -- no one over 16. It was really impressive to watch the intelligence and strategy of the bulls. The riders were daring and so tough. The announcer had a way of continually reminding us that these big brutes were pampered lads of leisure most of the time instead of being just so much hamburger. |
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