Saturday, 7 October – TT Lake Whitney, Whitney, TX

Woke to see the sun rising over the driving range.  Another nice day looming and today is a travel today as we chose to abandon this TT Lake Tawakoni two days earlier than planned.  We have about three hours on the road today so set up around 9am.

The first little town we come to is Wills Point and the main streets are brick paved – makes for a rather lumpy tummy jiggly ride.


Paved brick main street of Wills Point

We join the I20 which takes us around the bottom of Dallas, we have now circumnavigated the city by about 75%.

Next place of interest is Waxahachie, I just like saying it, it’s almost like a poem in the one word.  However the Texas Motorplex is here also.

Road works on the I35E don’t slow us down much, there are still two lanes each way operational.  They have so much room in the States, they just expand outwards.  But they did have the forethought when building the roads in the beginning to allow for expansion.

OK, we'll just make some new lanes in the middle!
We turn off at Hillsboro and find we have joined the Texas Lakes Trail.

Ten minutes later we arrive at Thousand Trails Lake Whitney.  We are hoping this is a nicer campground than the last.  First impression is that it might be.  The gate house and registration areas are modern and well kept.  Mimi & Papa’s Kitchen is open Wednesday through Sunday.  The park and Kitchen is open to the public so we are issued with fluoro green wristbands to indicate we are members and not just Joe Public?  Wonder if that gets us special treatment?

The roads to the camping loops are in good condition but when we check out the few available sites we are once again disappointed.  The story we are told is that someone drove over one of the power stands which knocked out power to intermittent sites through the whole CG.  Half of the vacant sites had black bags over the power stands indicated they are out of action.  Of course this covers all of the nice 50 amp full hook up sites and half of the 30 amp full hook up sites so we are limited pretty much to 30 amp with water, no sewer.  We pick a large pull through site and set up.  The power cuts out twice with just one of the AC’s on.  Hmm, we’re not overly impressed with this Thousand Trails CG either.  Kim of course thinks it is a conspiracy, they just don’t want us to use those sites and even maybe run around the sites putting bags on them just before we arrive to make sure we can’t : )

Anyway the scenery is nice, there is a golf course to the left and Lake Whitney is ahead just down the road from loop A where we set up.  This is close to the adult pool, family lodge, adult lodge (above family lodge and exercise room) for which we have been given the gate code.  I guess they need to be a bit careful as the park is open to the public.  The laundry is located here also and it has been upgraded to accept debit and credit cards, no more hunting for quarters.  The Jacuzzi is’ out of action’ - could be another conspiracy!  There are horse corrals at the end of our loop.

The kidney shaped pool was refreshing and we had our pick of loungers as we were the only ones there for a while.  Then another couple came for a dip, but they didn’t stay long.  Time has flown today, it’s 5.30pm before we leave the pool, we will have to rush through our drinks and nibbles before dinner!

Didn't walk down to the lake for the photo, it was pretty enough from our site
Something  interesting which I think we have only had in Texas are the Government issued Amber Alerts.  A klaxon alarm sounds on our phones with a notification, this time about a missing three year old girl from Houston.  You can turn the notifications off but what if we happened to see a lost three year old?? We have had them for missing teenagers and elderly people missing from hospital wards etc.  Plus they often post these messages on the led road signs.

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