We’re on the road

We’ve been busy this week, our last couple of days at Livingston were busy sorting things out and getting ready to move.

We left on Wednesday, here we are all hitched up and ready to roll.

Our first overnight stop was at the Stephen F Austin State Park, http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/stephen_f_austin_and_san_felipe/ in San Felipe, Texas. The park ranger who booked us in was really nice and directed us to our site, the sites are set in a loop one on each side and all the utilities are on the road side. Our site was a large pull through, with our own picnic table and grill set among all the trees.

The trees are all covered in Spanish moss and most have huge vines coiled around the trunks.

We took a walk through the trees along the Sycamore trail and down to the Brazos river it’s very wide and fast flowing I definitely wouldn’t want to swim in there.

We also visited the San Felipe de Austin state historic site http://www.visitsanfelipedeaustin.com/index.aspx?page=17.

In a nutshell, San Felipe was once the colonial capital of Texas and was burned by the townspeople as they fled Santa Ana after the attack on the Alamo.

The site is usually unmanned, but we were very lucky as there was a representative from the Texas State Historical Society on site and she gave us a guided tour. We were shown the well containing handmade bricks, allowed to look inside the JJ Josey General Store which is closed as it’s currently unsafe

We were shown the inside of the replica of Stephen F Austin’s log cabin she was very enthusiastic and very interesting. I must get a book on Texas history.

There’s a nice picnic area by the river, there’s a lot of Texas history here and while there’s not a lot to see it’s well worth a visit, I hope we get to come back one day.

Have fun, we are!