With the time change earlier this month, the days are getting shorter and shorter. I can't say enough how much I appreciate that RDB does our hauling and parking. We just made it down to Choke Canyon State Park Thursday evening as the sun set. The park has a great "no contact" check in process: I received an email the morning of our stay, requesting that we reply with any changes to the reservation, and notifying us that our car tag would be on the bulletin board outside headquarters. Simple, easy, safe.
Friday morning, while the boys slept in....
I had a bit of office work to do before taking a half day off Friday afternoon. We were encouraged by our manager to watch a Q&A between the president of our business unit and Emmanuel Acho, of "Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man." If you've not had a chance to watch his videos (or read his recently released book), I'd highly encourage it. I was challenged to rethink not just being non-racist, but to be anti-racist. Like the title of his series states, it's not a comfortable conversation or line of thinking to address, but it's necessary; lives depend on it.
Once I signed off from work, we rode over to Beeville for lunch. Why so far (about an hour away)? Because the only thing open in Three Rivers was the Dairy Queen! But the trip into Beeville was really fun.
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| Note that Lady Justice _isn't_ blind. |
Returning back to our campsite, we dropped into the Southern Unit of the park; it's day use only and has a great viewing area of the reservoir. The lake was first filled back in 1982, though with the recent droughts, it's only about a third full this fall.
You could tell that the levy area of the park wasn't often visited - and that's unfortunate as the view from there was so nice. It was also unfortunate that someone had spray painted racist graffiti on the backstop of one of the parking spots. It stung in a different way having just listened to Emmanuel's exhortation of breaking down barriers and actually having honest conversations. We still have so far to go.
RDB, Diesel, and I enjoyed taking walks around the park this weekend. Late in the day and once the sun had gone down. It's dark enough here at the park that you can see the Milky Way (and I saw a shooting star the first night! So Cool!)
Also cool? Finding a house hippo in the dirt out by our campsite. I think he'll hang out with us in the camper from here on, hopefully he won't eat all the potato chips!
We also found Thanksgiving dinner.....
....though, they are kinda skinny!
Saturday was a slow and easy day. RDB and I were craving a good Waffle House breakfast, but with no WF nearby (remember, the only thing in town is the DQ) we drove over to the nearest gas station and picked up eggs, onions, and bacon, and added the cheese and cream we already had - and it was maybe the best plate of scrambled eggs ever! Of course, it's always delicious when someone else does the cooking! (Thanks, RDB!)
RDB napped while I did a few crafts. One of the things I love about all the space in our new camper is that I can have a small stock of crafting supplies with me at all times... watercolors and acrylics, paint pens, yarn and a hot glue gun (I mean, you never know, right?).
Sunday morning we woke to significant winds - gusts over 20 MPH. The camper itself is relatively sturdy, but the flag stuck to its side was being battered all over the place! We had hoped to grill out steaks for lunch, but put that plan aside and cooked in the camper instead - no point in tempting fate and causing a fire that burns down the campground! We brought leftovers from my #miniturkeyday last week - and y'all! This was a GREAT idea! No cooking, easy clean up - and tasty!
We're watching our weather app to see when the winds might die down - though the camper is plenty stable in it's camp site, it's more like a traveling billboard going down the highway. Looks like we'll wait till later this afternoon before we head out and go home.
We were at Choke Canyon State Park, site #108. This is an ADA site (it was all that was available when I booked it late last week) so the pad is twice as wide as usual and you'll have a paved sidewalk around the picnic table and all the way over to the bath house. We saw plenty of birds (you're right next to a "sanctuary" bird blind), deer, and javelinas. Also, Saturday afternoon there was a swarm of wasps around the patio cover (did you know they're blind to the color red? Might have to pack a few shirts in that color in the camper, just in case!). Overall, it's a nice park - but is a bit too far away from all the "adventures" we enjoy to consider coming back again. But, you never know!
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