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A most excellent plan

We need some civilization.  Or something close to it.  We headed off to a KOA campground in Texarkana for some reliable wifi and laundry.

Fall 2025

That was the plan for Wednesday anyway, but it’s not really nice here.  Right by the road, there is a lot of traffic noise.  There are washing machines that take quarters, but no change machine and the office couldn’t help.  There is high-speed wifi, but the office doesn’t know the code today.  Not a place we want to stand outside cooking Thanksgiving dinner in the cold.  We spent the night and left.  The weather map said go south.  Tonight, Thursday, we’re at Brazos Bend State Park, one of our favorite places on the planet. 

Got a very nice site.

And a very nice Thanksgiving dinner.

Judy has a more elaborate one planned.  We’ll do the full camping Thanksgiving dinner, on another day soon, TBA.

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The rhythm of the road

We stay in a place for a few days.  We see weather coming.  We look at the forecast for a hundred miles in every direction.  We go to the most favorable.  Now we’re in Louisiana.

Fall 2025

We wake up, have some coffee, work a bit, take a walk, and take advantage of every internet opportunity.  (Sometimes that requires a trip to the closest town.)  Life around camp, the small things take up more time, and much of the day.  There is one configuration of the van for driving, another for hanging out around camp, and another for nighttime.  Each transition takes a surprising amount of time shuffling stuff.  I make the coffee every morning.  We got a Coleman camp stove, and now Judy fixes us something for dinner most every night.  (Sometimes we still eat dinner in town, early in the day.)  We watch the sunset (It’s only five o’clock.), then write a trip report (It won’t go out because whatever internet we can get has gone away by then.  Who knew the internet would only work while the sun was out?  We might need to take a look at Starlink.)  It’s cool at night so we’re back inside.  We have shore power so we can run the space heater.  We turn everything off at night and sleep at whatever the outside temperature is.  It works.

Jimmie Davis State Park in Louisiana.  It was a little wet when we got here.  (But not crowded.)

Then it cleared up.

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Matagorda Bay Nature Park

Back to the coast. 

Fall 2025

Time for some fresh seafood.  Grilled snapper, fried snapper, potato salad, and hush puppies.

And the fishing pier at night.

We’re right on the Colorado River.  No, not that Colorado river.  The Texas Colorado River.  The green lights shining into the water to attract fish make for a really nice effect.

A colorful evening.