Today [Tuesday 10th] we drove across the Texas
Panhandle Prairie. Our journey took us from 30 miles west of Lubbock
[Littlefield] to Bridgeport
which is just northwest of Dallas/Fort Worth. A distance of 287 miles on rural
country roads, it was quite an experience. The terrain changes back and forth
from buffalo grass prairie to some agriculture, to rugged valleys. We only
passed thru 2 maybe 3 very small towns and many long stretches of desolate
nothingness.
Our campground for the night is a Thousand Trails Campground
called Bay Landing. We’ve never been here before and were pleasantly surprised;
it is a very nice place. I purchased my Thousand Trails membership mostly as an
economical way to spend the winter months in Florida. The system has 88 campgrounds
spread around the country that we can use and Millie and I have been to quite a
few in the last two years. Some are very nice, most are average and one or two
that we’ve seen could use some work. The only negative thing we can say about
this park is the sand spurs. They are growing everywhere and the dogs are
getting gun shy about walking outside.
We still have about 250 miles of Texas
to cross before we reach Arkansas.
We are going to visit another TT campground [Lake
Tawakoni] east of Dallas
and will reach the border at Texarkana
on Thursday. We have a requirement that necessitates stay in a commercial
campground on Thursday and I have already called ahead to make sure they have
the USA
network on their cable TV lineup. The final episode of the series “Burn Notice”
will air and we don’t want to miss it.
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