Saturday, March 11, 2017

Austin (day 7) to Tatum, TX


Thursday – Mar 9  Left Austin this morning.  It has been rainy or cloudy all week and we just couldn’t face another rained out cowboy shoot.  Lake Charles, LA was predicting rain for the weekend.  We could head east and show up for the two day match, but we are kinda missing home.  So we calculated the cost of fuel vs our already paid fees and decided to head north.  With my cold and all, I really wasn’t up to a shoot in the rain or really, anything but stellar weather.  So we revamped our plan, slightly, hoping for sunnier weather.

We drove to Washington-on-the-Brazos State Park, TX.  This is the spot where Texas declared its independence from Mexico.  “Although Mexico’s war of independence pushed out Spain in 1821, Texas did not remain a Mexican possession for long. It became its own country, call the Republic of Texas, from 1836 until it agreed to join the United States in 1845.”   The warm weather has brought out the bugs. Lots of flies. The river is good sized so that a ferry operated nearby back in the day.  The town thought river traffic would never end and didn’t worry when the railroad went in miles away.  Now the state park is all that is left of the town.



We drove to Martin Creek Lake State Park, TX to spend the night.  The info in the state park book said that a nearby power plant keeps the lake warm.  OMG!  The coal fired plant takes up ¾ of the lake.  It lights up the whole southern sky. It released steam to such an extent I thought a fleet of airplanes was flying right overhead.  We are stuck here and none of the other campers are disturbed by the noise.  Jim said…Cindy you aren’t in Idaho anymore.  This isn’t a real campground. This isn’t real wilderness. This is wrong on so many levels.  As I worked on my blog, little beetle-like bugs came crawling in when we cracked the window.   The south can keep its weather and bugs and mugginess.    



Was that too much?

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