On Friday, we bid farewell to Brazos Bend State Park, and headed for Interstate 10. We are planning to take four days to drive from Brazos Bend (south of Houston) to Sun City West (west of Phoenix).
The Texas hill country is quite beautiful, especially with the wildflowers in bloom on the roadside.
We stopped in San Antonio for gas, and then continued west. Our destination was South Llanos River State Park, near Junction Texas. The park looked nice, but there was no room at the inn on a Friday night. We consulted our guidebook, which showed a KOA and a small RV park. We called and selected the small RV park, which turned out to be an excellent choice. The Pecan Valley RV park is on the North Lllano River, in a rural area. The birding was quite good; we saw an Eastern Bluebird, which was a new bird for us. We also saw Cardinals, Vermillion Flycatchers, and a Tufted Titmouse. The campground host feeds the deer at the park at 6 PM, and we saw a herd of 30 white tail deer come running for the corn he puts out. The Cardinals liked the corn also. We walked down to the river, which was bigger than we expected, and a pretty blue-green color. There was only one other RV in the park, so the place was very quiet and peaceful, although there was some highway noise from the interstate.
Saturday we will be continue west on Interstate 10 towards El Paso, probably stopping before El Paso.
Richard and Marianne
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