Woke to a very light misty rain which soon cleared to bright
blue sky and brilliant sunshine. Travel
day today but only around 85 miles or so and we are on the road about quarter
before ten. Driving along the highway towards the I35 we know we are in
Texas, we pass ranches with their names proudly displayed over the gates and a lot display the lone star
of Texas. This area particularly is
horse country but there are cattle too behind white fences in well defined
paddocks. Many Texas flags flutter in
the breeze. Of all the states I think
Texas is the most proud of theirs.
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| Texas Ranch |
We drove past several well attended churches this morning,
they even have a designated Cowboy Church, or maybe it was a Cowboy Country
Church!
First stop is for fresh supplies at Walmart in the thriving
metropolis of Denton. Every man and his
aunt and uncle are here this Sunday morning and the lines to the checkouts are
5 or 6 deep. Although it is one of the
new generation, posher Walmarts, they have no iceburg lettuce for Kim and
although they have wine for sale (yay – finally) I am still thwarted because it’s
not yet noon so I can’t buy any!
However there is another Walmart just 12 miles further at
Decatur and we arrive here after mid day so wine sales are on!! Plus they have lettuce and our fav tea bags
so all good. I will be having a wine
tonight : )
Shortly after we arrive at TT Bay Landing, on Bridgeport
Lake. We are welcomed by an enthusiastic display of scary Halloween creatures.
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| Ohh, scary!! |
It’s a big
campground, over 300 sites but not many of them are 50 amp and once again there
is a surcharge of $3/night for 50 amp. We’ve
used our free 30 nights so now pay just $4 per night. The needle hasn’t passed 30C today so I think
we’ll be OK with just one AC on at a time so choose a lakeside 30 amp site with water with neighbours only on one side
and they are not here. We are only here four days, if we last that long.
The camp sadly is a little rundown, they had
three empty 50 amp full hook-up sites close
to the Pool and Clubhouse which is the only place you can get their WIFI, but
these sites were out of action for some reason and look like they had been for
some time. All the other sites had been
snaffled up by mostly permanents. The buildings all look OK from the outside, will
explore them later. The sites are large
where we are but just gravel or grass.
There are trees around the outside perimeter by the lake but only a few to
provide shade on the inside loop.
It was almost 3 by the time we drove through the whole campground and sussed out the best spot for us, so we set up and get ready to lax back and
enjoy. There is a nice little rock track
down to the lake and we have a fire pit and a grill. The wooden picnic table is a bit wobbly but.
I did have a wine tonight and I did enjoy it!!
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| Beautiful sunset over Lake Brideport, TX |
It was a lovely quiet, starry night except for at some stage
there was some noise from what I thought was a pack of wild dogs or coyotes??
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