Terrain of Texas

Leaving Texas “Hill Country” on Tuesday, November 22,  driving to Giddings, Texas in the “Lakes and Prairies”.  We spent the night in a park located on a longhorn cattle ranch.  Rustic, but well laid out, full hook-ups, and clean.  The cattle did not seem to mind that we spent the night with them. 

On to Texas “Piney Woods” where we are staying until Monday, November  28, in Livingston, Texas (approximately 80 miles north of Houston).  This is the headquarters for the Escapees RV Club (www.escapees.com) and the location of a large Escapee RV park.  If you are avid RV’ers, this is a worthwhile club to join.  They have 19 RV parks located around the country and the nightly fees are only $14/night + electricity (full hook-ups).  A welcome reprieve from the other RV Parks’ average of $35/night and up. 

The Escapees have been providing our mail service for the last two years and we are very pleased with the service.  It is efficient and the people are very professional and friendly.  We simply call them and ask for the mail to be sent to the RV Park where we are located.  The mail arrives two days later.  By the way, the friendly part seems to be a theme all over Texas.

The time spent in Livingston will be to catch up on laundry, cleaning, and groceries.  And maybe a little R&R in the warm east Texas weather.

Hill Country

This is not the time of year for the Hill Country wildflowers they come in the spring; and there has been such a severe drought in Texas the wildflowers will probably suffer. Maybe the rain will come this fall and save the day. Hope so. The country is beautiful with oak trees, streams and rolling hills—the flowers will make the area that much more stunning.

Fredericksburg, Texas is a pretty little town with limestone homes and shops. All with a definite German influence (arrived here as immigrants in the mid-1800s). We are not big shoppers, but we visited a lot of stores to look at the old buildings made with white rock, weathered wood floors or sometimes colorful tile flooring. Lots of restaurants serving brats and featuring a biergarten.

About 100 miles west of Fredericksburg, Texas, we started to notice a big difference in weather from the rest of the Southwest.  Humidity.   We had 99% humidity today, but no rain.  Now I know why Southern gals have big hair. 

In Arizona and New Mexico the night-time temperatures dropped drastically from 70 degrees to 40 degrees or sometimes in the 30’s after the sun sets.  Not in central Texas, the day-time temperature of 75 degrees remains around 70 degrees at night too along with the humidity.

We are in Texas Y’All!