We started the day by finishing the trail we started last night. Drove over to where we left off and walked out the rest of the way to the boat launch. It’s a couple miles one way from camp to the end. That amounted to 2.5 miles today. Skye got to splash around in the river by the boat launch. It wasn’t being used.
Then over to the swimming and boating area where we found Skye a good place to swim. Again, nobody else there.
Followed that with a drive over to the restored Fort Parker site. That was fun. A fair sized fort with furnished living quarters all of 1836 period. It is the site of a multi- tribe raid that captured 9 yo Cynthia Ann Parker. She eventually married the Comanche chief and had 3 children. One of those was Quannah Parker who later became a prominent Comanche chief himself.
As I looked through a gate I saw a CAS setup next door. Permanent facades and steel targets left out, all set up. Turns out that the shoot the third weekend of the month, so just last weekend. And the fort has camping too. And theirs is flat! We’ll have to keep all that in the trip notes for future reference.
We stopped at Sonic for some ice cream. They are not DQ for sure. I’ll have to be desperate to go back.
So tomorrow we head out east some more. Staying at HH in Edwards LA. That’s a bit south of Shreveport.
Check out the leather hinges, and the manner of latching the window closed.
Interesting chimney
Tenpetal Anemone
Old Plainsman
My new Doc McCoy Official Flower!
Spiderwort
Yaupon Holly
And the sun is setting on our time in Texas.
It’ll have been one full week.
In case you are wondering just where we are
We are the blue dot
And the Last few days in Luckenbach
We stopped at a Sonic on our way to Tennessee one year. Definitely agree with you. Wasn’t worth the hype of not having one back home. I much prefer DQ. Have you ever had the DQ’s in NH or ME?
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