Nice easy drive for the most part. Went way around Austin then up through Temple & Waco before heading east to Mexia. Ft. Parker SP is an older park that has not been “remodeled”, so the roads are old pavement, lots of trees beside the road and hindering easy maneuvers at the sites. Sites are sloped to the front so I needed almost all of the cribbing I brought. Our reserved site was supposedly a 40’ site but it was going to be the dickens to get into and then park the truck on the grass. So we got them to switch us to another longer site. Now everything fits. Nice view of the lake, Skye will love getting in it tomorrow. It was too late today fort her to get soaked. We aren’t in that dry SW climate anymore. She dried incredibly fast in AZ and NM. It’s 61% humidity here, it was 8% where we were a few days ago. I am not looking forward to VT humidity this summer.
After supper we went for a walk down the road toward the primitive camp an and spooked a deer which then crossed the road into bigger woods. Back in camp after sunset a deer was behind us snorting at us. It might be interesting here. We are here for 2 nights before resuming the moseying eastward.
Last night I forgot to mention one interesting shingle during the show. One of the guys, Jake McLain, the scheduled performer, asked if there were any pickers in the audience who would like to come up and play. Two other guys immediately offered their guitars for this one fellow from Chicago to come play. Tim came up and played two songs that he had written. He said he is in a band but has only been playing for 1.5 years. He was pretty good for so little experience. He said he was nervous but the others told him that was normal, and they had at least 20 years, or up to 50 for one guy. We are missing the music tonight!
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