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Today Barbara and I visited the Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas. We met up with an old high school friend of mine, Keith, and his lovely wife, Janice. We enjoyed lunch at Bubba Gump’s, took a boat ride around the Riverwalk, enjoyed some ice cream and caught up on old times. Great Day!

On Tuesday Barbara and I landed at the Medina Lake, Thousand Trails RV park northwest of San Antonio, Texas. According to the map provided upon our arrival this park contains numerous hiking trails so this morning I decided to go explore them. This park also has a lot of deer and most are use toContinue reading “Medina Lake”

This morning I took advantage of the nice weather and took a hike around the Thousand Trails Park, Lake Conroe where we are currently staying. This is a big park and one of the nicest parks we have stayed at. They even have a mobile home community here with new mobile homes being installed almostContinue reading “Lake Conroe the Sequel”

Today the outside temperature is below 75 degrees and so is the humidity, so Barbara took the short drive to the Montgomery County Veterans Memorial Park in the town of Conroe. This is a really nice park that respectfully pays tribute to our military veterans past, present and future. Take a look!

Yesterday we woke up to the sound of rain on the roof and thunder in the background. The rain lasted until around 2:00pm when Barbara and I enjoyed lunch with some college friends of mine. We ate at the Wunsche Cafe’ and Saloon in Spring, Texas. Legend has it that the cafe’ is haunted, butContinue reading “Lake Conroe Sunset”

On Monday we took our little boy back to the vet to have his stiches removed. The vet gave Hopper a clean bill of health and now he only has to take three pills a day. Down from the seven a day he was taking previously. The vet watched Hopper walk and indicated that itContinue reading “Lake Conroe”

Yesterday, Barbara, Judy, Mike and I traveled to the eastern border of Texas, with Louisiana, to take a boat ride in the swamp lands. Caddo lake is the only natural lake in Texas and is fed by the Red river. Legend has it that the lake was formed in 1811-12 by the nearby New MadridContinue reading “Caddo Lake”

On Thursday our friends Mike and Judy treated Barbara and I to one of the local fish hatcheries in Athens, Texas. This is a cool place to visit. They have a video that tells about the Texas fisheries, several tanks where you can see many different types of fish, a nature trail, with exhibits, pondsContinue reading “Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center”

This morning I got up early, 5:30AM, to go fishing with my friend Mike Collins and his father-in-law, Earl.  While loading the truck, Earl cut his arm and required some medical attention.  After we got Earl taken care of we noticed that the lights on the boat trailer weren’t working.  We stopped at the gasContinue reading “Fishing Lake Limestone”

Yesterday Barbara and I, along with our friends Judy and Mike, dropped Hopper off at the vet. Hopper had to go in for surgery to repair a torn ACL in his back right leg. So we didn’t sit around and worry about Hopper, we did anyway, we headed to Waco to visit the Waco MammothContinue reading “Hopper and the Wooly Mammoth”