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.
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| 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.
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| 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!
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| 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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