Goodbye Texas......Hello New Mexico!!!

Well...these are the last few pics of Texas.   We enjoyed the drive towards New Mexico - the road was carved out of these rocks.

This however, is unbelievable!!!  80 miles per hour - WOW - only in Texas!!!  Of course we did not do that speed!

These cacti are all over the sides of the roads - very cool!

We stopped in this cute little Cowboy Town - Pecos.   Home of the World's First Rodeo - and they are very proud of it!

Sorry about the blurry photos - sometimes it's the best you can get while looking through the window!!   Anyhow.....we are now in New Mexico - check out the bullet holes all over the sign!!!  Funny.

The road just goes on and on and on - very dusty, dry and flat - kinda cool tho'.

This area is has SO many oil rigs.  

More New Mexico to come - when we can get the internet to work :(   Having problems.......again!!

~San Antonio, Texas~

 A few days ago we went into beautiful San Antonio.  This is the Tower of the Americas with its 750 ft high observation tower.

 What a handsome boy!

 The San Antonio River Walk is a network of walkways along the banks of the San Antonio River, one story beneath the streets of Downtown San Antonio.   

 We SO enjoyed walking along it!

We enjoyed walking around the famous" Alamo". In 1836 the Battle of the Alamo took place here.

 Oh....who do we have here??   Davy Crockett and his brother??

 The further down the river we went, the more beautiful it got.  The bridges were all different.....

 restaurants lined the sides................

 people were enjoying boat tours...............

 There were lovely flower pots leading up to the upper area of the city.

 After we had explored the river area we headed to the San Fernando Cathedral.

 Here is the tomb of William B. Travis, Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie and other "Alamo" heroes.

 This is the beautiful Courthouse.

 We walked all the way to the huge Mexican Outdoor/Indoor Market.

We had a great day in San Antonio!

~Medina Lake and more friends~

We have been staying at Thousand Trails Medina Lake for the last week.  If you can believe it......this is the lake!!!!  Or rather.......dust bowl - there is NO water in it.  It really was incredible to see it, but oh so sad for all the lake front home owners, tube and boat rental companies, hotels, lodges etc.....

 This is the boat launch in the campground which leads down to the lake.

 These are the boat docks.

This was the only bit of water we saw!

 Our park is FULL of deer.  Normally we are trying to chase them out our orchard at home, but here - they are so sweet!!!   People here feed them "deer corn" and the sites are full of them.  They sleep under the trailers and come up SO close.

 There literally are hundreds of them!

 Travis was feeding this one some lettuce.....from his hand!

 We have enjoyed all the activities here at this park.  Yesterday the kids did "Wacky Golf" with Alice, the wonderful Activity co-ordinator here at this Thousand Trails park.

 She had a huge tub of lego which was used frequently too!

Here we are playing "card bingo" - very fun!

And then "craft time" with Alice!   We basically had her "all to ourselves" this week as there weren't that many kids around.

 Check out those jelly bean lips - the wrapping paper ended up being just in the right spot!!

Then a funny thing happened......While we were in Indiana about 6 months ago we met the "Costello" family - they are a travelling band.   We were sitting having our lunch and in they drove!!!  So we were able to catch up with them again and also enjoy their fantastic concert!!  They are SO talented!

 Later in the evening our girls, the Costello twins and a few extra teens from the park joined together for a fun game of "Pit".

Another fun week for us all!

~Bandera, Texas~

 We are really enjoying being here in Texas.  One afternoon last week we ventured out to this cute, little cowboy town called Bandera.  This community calls itself the "Cowboy Capital of the World"

We had a great time wandering through the town.   Everything was "cowboyish"!  Very cool!

 The girls had fun trying on all the cowboy hats :)

 All the garbage cans around the town were decorated with boots, horses, cowboy hats etc....

 This store had a real old fashioned ice cream parlour - so neat!

 On all of the light posts were these cute iron "signs" - too cool!

They all had different designs on them.   We had a wonderful "Texan" afternoon.