Houston to Columbus TX

12 May 2016

Say goodbye to Quality Suites Intercontinental, Houston East (adjacent to the airport).   Awesome place to stay, lovely people and very helpful - we will be back!

Headed out of town via DeMontrond RV to talk about the paint finish of our repairs and then drive about 70 miles west to a town called Columbus and our camp for two nights, the Colorado River RV Resort.  Who would have thought there were two Colorado Rivers here, one in Texas and perhaps the more famous one in Colorado State.  It is not busy here, only just opening this week after severe flood damage three weeks ago.  We do a drive by all the sites, dodging multiple squirrels and select a nice shady site right on the shores of the Colorado and make camp.  Surprisingly, it doesn’t take long to set up and we get some chores done - flush the water pipes, replace the wipers, install our new Tyre Tracking system, shine up the tyres, clean the bikes etc.

We were the only ones next to the river when we arrived around 1pm but now there are two more motorhomes parked alongside us.  They have been entertaining us, along with the deer, squirrels and bright red birds.

Bright Red Birds

We seem to be pretty tired today so after a read outside in the shade and having a quick dinner we opt for an early night in our very own bed - not quite the king size we have become used to over the last three nights, but it is ours! 

13 May 2016 (Black Friday - but not for us!!)

We had a really good night sleep, lulled by the distant lightening show. Not too early a start this morning and after a couple of cups of tea we start our day.  Beautiful morning, deer and squirrels galore and a nice hot sunny day looming.  Took the pushbikes off for an explore along the hiking trails, saw a skink/lizardy thing and more white tail deer.  It’s started to get hot so off to the pool which we have to ourselves to enjoy for an hour until it gets a bit more populated.  On the way back a mama deer and her teeny tiny fawn crossed the track right in front of us, baby was all long legs and an itsy bitsy body.  So cute!!

We have ticked off a few more chores this afternoon, generator drawer adjusted, bike brakes readjusted, kindles read.  Our luck with the weather seems to be holding for this year too (so far at least, long may it continue). We have avoided severe thunderstorms and torrential rain just the other side of Houston, but we haven’t even had any rain here, 70 miles west!  This evening we were treated to more lightning and thunder in the distance but it still didn’t rain here.

14 May 2016

Woke late - we must just about be caught up with our sleep now and decide to stay here another day.  There are rain storms forecast further west so we will wait for a day.  We can easily fill in one more day here relaxing and pottering.  Being the weekend there is much more activity and lots of incoming campers.  The sun is out after a foggy start to the morning and it’s going to be another hot one (30 C) so might hit the pool again.

This whole park used to be a pecan orchard and there are still 200 year old pecan trees around our site.  The nuts ripen in autumn and guests are welcome to gather them.  Might have to stop here on our way back to Houston in five months time.

200 year old Pecan trees

There is WIFI, but only up at the activity centre which is quite a hike on the bikes so will wait to our next stop to post blogs.  Stand by!