Our travel day yesterday started out very interesting. We woke up to falling rain and snow on the ground. In fact we had to hook up (we had done packing up the night before) in the freezing cold rain. My fingers were numb as I'm sure Ed's were by the time we were done. It was also a very boring drive as we traveled most of the day thru rainy and cloudy conditions. We arrived at the Thousand Trails park in Texas at about 5pm (having lost an hour to time zone change) and had to set up in the rain also.

Don't feel too sorry for us tho' as this is a beautiful park in the sunshine. Today started out a little dreary and we decided to do laundry. With laundry completed, we headed back to the 5th wheel when we noticed......sunshine!! Hadn't seen it in a few days! After tucking away the laundry we took off for a walk with Dude and then soon decided to head out to see what we could see. Since the day was mostly over we chose Bandera, a town nearby. Bandera calls itself the Cowboy Capital of the World. It may be the cowboy capital but we didn't really see any. What we did see was a very cool realistic-looking Texas State Policeman while we were having a late lunch in the Old Spanish Trail restaurant. I'm afraid I stared a bit and he probably wondered if I was some type of criminal is disguise as a middle-aged woman. He was very handsome, fit and in a real snappy uniform.

After our meal, we got Dude out of the truck and walked around town a bit. It's historic section is being worked on right now and so there was not much too see but we visited a couple stores. We bought Ed an authentic Western shirt (purple).....just wait til you see him in it!!.....ooh la la, so handsome with his gray hair. I got myself a pair of earrings from the Indian gift store that look like two small Indian headdresses.

Back at the campground we took Dude on another walk and enjoyed the last of the sunshine. If there's sun tomorrow we will hike down to the lake and maybe even fish.