December 16, 2014 Nacogdoches, Texas

Another 200 mile day today. We drove from north east Texas to south east Texas.

We drove through Paris, Texas. Did not find the Eiffel tower there. There was supposed to be a statue of Jesus with a cowboy had, but John didn’t want to drive around town looking for it. The bottom of the photo is historic downtown Paris. A couple other sights. Armadillo eggs stand, you know you are south when you see crawfish for sale and a memorial to Bo Pilgrim, he had a chicken processing plant that employed the whole town. We have been seeing dead armadillos and possums by the road, another sign of the south.

As we headed south in Texas the trees got taller, then we were in pine forests.  I had heard that east Texas had trees, but I really didn’t believe it. This part of Texas looks more like Louisiana than Texas. The bottom part of the photo is the turn off into the RV park we are in . Camp Tonkawa Springs. I like the Indian chief in an inner tube on the sign. This slow sign is in front of  the office.

The bus at Tonkawa Springs RV park. We walked down to the spring, they have swimming here. Only in the 60’s today, so no swimming for us.

     

We practically have the place to ourselves. Very peaceful here. There are Sika deer and guinea hens. They say the deer will eat from your hand. They call the hens the mafia. They seem more like a group of hysterical women running around together squawking as they run.  We paid for a month here. It is cheaper than two weeks here, and much, much cheaper than two weeks at the place in Louisiana we had planned on leaving the bus while we drive the car to Chicago for Christmas with John’s family.

 

Trees with leaves and berries on them. I only recognize the holly trees. It was a sad day for our basil plants today. They have been traveling around with us for about a year. They did not survive being indoors in Colorado. They were infested with white flies and aphids, also got a little frost bit trying to get some sun outside in Colorado. We tried all kinds of sprays, but the bugs just kept coming back. We had to euphonize them today. We also don’t have room for any more pesto in our freezer. Here are the 20 cups of leaves becoming pesto, the bugs that fell off on my pants while I was plucking the leaves off and the full freezer, the first and 4th shelves are packed with pesto. 

The plants and their infestation. We will adopt some more plants and raise them to travel with us.

I found out later that there was an Eiffel tower Paris and it had a red cowboy hat on it. I got this photo from the internet because I could not talk John into driving back to see it.