Ingram, TX 3-18-07

Well a change of plan for us came up yesterday. We had planned on staying in Hondo until the first of April, but yesterday at three in the afternoon an office person brought some mail to us that Larry had been waiting for and as he was leaving said, by the way, you did know that you have to move off this lot today or tomorrow? UH, NO.

A little background; this park is a co-op and the lots/spaces are leased, but when the lot owners are away we members are allowed to rent them. Sometimes if you are staying for an extended length of time the lot owners will return and you are moved to another lot. The thing that annoyed us, was that the lot owners are required to notify the office a week before their planned arrival, which they did, BUT the office didn’t notify us. Messed up our plans up for our weekend, but oh well, meant to get it in gear apparently. We could have easily spent the rest of the month there, but once you have everything put away and you’re hooked up, it is just as easy to hit the road, which is what we did.

So we decided to head north of Hondo a bit. We drove along the scenic back-roads of the Texas Hill Country to Ingram, Texas, which is just north of Kerrville, west of I-10. The wild flowers are just getting started, so we did see a few patches of Bluebonnets and the Yucca’s are starting to bloom, they are stunning.

It was cloudy and misty and the road twisted and turned and climbed and descended, but it was pretty countryside. Lots of big ranches and “dude” ranches and hunting ranches, we saw a big white headed with a black toupee wearing looking hawk and big wild turkeys and antelope and BIG Texas cattle along the way. All these pictures are out the windows of the truck along the way and as you can tell I didn’t catch any shots of anything warm-blooded.

We left the Lone Star Corral RV Park at ten and got to the Armadillo Junction RV Park at 1:30. It is a Passport America member park and we are here for the next 4 or 5 nights with full hook-ups for $9 a night. No place to walk laps here, I was up to 3.6 miles, but there are no trains and we are right beside a field that is full of juniper trees and has horses grazing around. The scenery is very pretty, behind us is a hill of junipers, oak and cactus. We traveled 111 miles today. We stopped at a market for groceries on our way in. It is 6:30 and the sun has finally decided to come out. I think tomorrow we’ll drive around to some of the local sights.