Huston

If you ever find yourself looking for a place to stay because you have to be in Houston allow me to suggest Lake Huston Wilderness Park. 

You don’t have an RV I hear you say? And you don’t like sleeping on the ground? In this place they give you the option of an A frame for accommodation. 

They are Hansel and Gretel cute though spartan. This is the bare minimum and no way intends to compete with a Hilton. A neon light, an electrical outlet and mosquito netting with an outside faucet a picnic table and a view of the lake is what you get. 

Of course Rusty won’t be around to add extra cuteness as we leave Saturday. And when I say “we” that will include Layne who is currently in Ohio getting an errant skin cell cut out by a dermatologist. Why Ohio? Because that’s where she could get an appointment to get checked out and when they found a cancer cell, there it was she had to go to get it removed. Thanks MediCare for paying for the job and no we don’t have Medicare Advantage as we use it all over the  place. 

So Rusty and I needed somewhere bearable to sit out three days of u seasonably hot sticky days (and nights).  Lake Huston Wilderness looked good. I think the RV site costs $41 with full hookups and decent privacy. 

However it’s midweek and school is in session so it’s me in space 4 and him in space 2 and this morning when I walked Rusty his pickup was gone. 

For us after a senior discount with taxes and all that stuff it worked out to $30 a night for three nights which seems fine by me.  There are no mountains to find cool temperatures and indeed there is not one acre of BLM or US Forest Service public land in Texas, (Boo hiss). So when we drive through the state in comfortable temperatures we stop at one of the many rest areas lining every single highway. Or, there are some pretty decent state parks if you don’t mind laying to have neighbors. 

I can stand this and Rusty likes walking here in between long snoring sessions in the shade. 

It’s a park filled with activities including sitting on a river beach and walking all over the place. 

Picnic areas for day users, lots of shade and wooded paths and this is exactly what I am in the mood for after weeks of moochdocking and socializing. 

The lake is catch and release but I haven’t seen anyone using the fishing piers. There was a couple picnicking yesterday at the lakeside pavilion but this seems to be a time to be alone with one’s thoughts. And a book…

Saturday when Layne is back the plan is to drive a half day to Laredo and take a room using our Hilton points so we can use their business facilities to organize and photocopy our documents and leave Sunday for the border showered and ready for our first Mexican truck stop somewhere near Monterrey.

You can’t leave without looking over your shoulder and thinking of all the things you’ve missed this time around but we’ll be back to see more of it all. Meanwhile the open road beckons and that always gives me a thrill.