Continuing in Texas (and Oklahoma) Plus an exciting announcement!

We completed our stay at Lake Texoma Thousand Trails and loved every minute of our time there.

I have to say that this is one of the nicest Thousand Trails properties we have stayed at. Incredibly well manicured and maintained. And our site was huge!

As usual we did our daily walks around the property when we weren't hiking someplace. The route around the outside of the park is about 3.2 miles, but on the 100+ degree days it felt more like 10 miles, all up hill 🥵

Our first week there we had a cold front come through and had to deal with frozen pipes and scraping the ice off our windows (because everyone knows Texas water freezes at about 85 degrees 🥶). 

But seriously, we did have low humidity and daytime highs in the low to mid 80s for a full week. That was great, but we knew it couldn't last. Soon we were harshly reminded that this is July in Texas. Overnight the temps roared back to the upper 90s with "feels like" temps around 105.

We took advantage of the cool down and did a bunch of sightseeing and hiking. We visited Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge and did some cool hikes. This is a sanctuary for migratory birds, famous for the thousands of Canada geese that come in the fall. This time of year it is quiet there but still very enjoyable hiking.

We also visited Eisenhower State Park for some more incredible hiking and beautiful lake views.

The area in the photo below is called Lovers Leap. It is sheer cliffs that are breaking away in huge chunks. If you were standing on the edge when a piece let go it could give "falling for you" a whole new meaning, if you catch my drift 😁.

The hiking trails were impressive with deep woods alternated with huge lake vistas.

We also took a ride into Oklahoma for a world famous Arbuckle Mountain Fried Pie. 

Now there are fried pies and there are FRIED PIES, and Arbuckle Fried Pies are definitely the latter.  OMG were they good. If you have never had one, add this to your bucket list as a must do.

In case you have not seen one, they are flakey pie crust wrapped around a mound of fillings and then deep fried until golden brown. They make fruit pies, cream pies and breakfast and dinner pies, and each is incredible (I know because I had one of each 😁).

We have now moved to another spot on lake Texoma in a COE park. Juniper Point is probably the most incredible lakeside COE park we have ever visited.

The sites are all concrete, water and electric (30/50) and most are overlooking the lake.  Some like ours are perched high above the lake with views across and into Oklahoma. Others are down at lake level where you could almost jump off your RV into the water. Everything is impeccably maintained and outfitted.  The only downside for our time here is that the temps have been in the 100 degree range. Still it has be tolerable with the shade of the big trees and the breezes off the lake.

And I also have some incredible news!  My youngest son Jon and his wife Amber just had their 2nd baby. This is our 5th grandchild, the 3rd boy and there are also 2 girls. Kaiden Young was born 2:54 pm Monday August 10th weighing in at 7lbs 7oz and 19 in long. Mom and baby are doing excellent and we are very proud and happy for Jon and Amber!  Exciting times!

That's it for this post. Tomorrow we continue our time in Texas, moving to a park outside of Bridgeport. Again this park is on a lake and we are looking forward to exploring the area, and maybe even some of our old stomping grounds.

Until next time, thanks for reading. Please stay safe.

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Cindy and Terry

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