Sunday March 6, 2011 Texas bound

Finally we have a plan - sort of. We are headed to Texas! We purposely went to the Interstate to cross into Texas to get travel information and a roadmap. When I had requested information from various states before the trip Texas was one of the states that sent nothing. Well we crossed the state line at Texarkana and wouldn't you know - construction everywhere - we could see the tourist information centre but we weren't getting to it this trip. Southward bound with the atlas and GPS. We ended up at Nacodoches Texas for 2 nights. It is supposed to be the oldest town in Texas. We took it easy and visited the historic downtown on Monday but quite a few of the shops were closed either because it was Monday or not not quite tourist season. We even managed to get a Texas roadmap at the local tourist information centre. (so a question - if I am in the US should I spell centre the Canadian way or the American way, hmmmm)  We did our laundry while we were here - there was a couple from Oklahoma there who told me what had happened to that ghost town we passed through a couple of days ago. It was hit by a tornado last year and pretty much destroyed - the town was being moved anyway - lead poisoning from the mine - this just sped the process up.

Our campsite backed onto a little stocked pond. We could see the occasional fish jump.
We had spotty Internet at the campsite but we used it to make a plan for the next week or two. We are headed to Texas Hill Country Fredericksburg for 4 nights and then to the Gulf Coast after thatn