Texas Welcome Center, Orange, Texas. Texas has bayous, too.
We stayed overnight here. It was fine. Really. I said it was fine. Kind of loud, very crowded, but we felt safe and slept fairly well.
We New York Ducks aren't used to rest areas being interesting or pretty. We're satisfied if the toilets flush. This is why we keep going Oooh, what a pretty potty break this was! Such a beautiful truck stop! New York State has set the bar for public interstate bathrooms so low that other states cannot help but excel. You can't spend the night there, and the upside is, you don't want to.
Squee! Texas has nice necessaries!
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| Blue Elbow Swamp |
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| I swear to you there is a bird in this picture. I just can't find it. |
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| Annie spotted him first. |
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My first feral alligator! RAWR!
(I didn't mean to scare you) |
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| When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. |
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| We are also not tortoises, please. |
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| The three of us are also not tortoises, too. |
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| Never drop a toaster into the swamp. |
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| This is a chicken. |
We've settled into a longish-term RV park here in Orange. People seem to be living here; it's a working-class neighborhood in the middle of a ranch. Boondocking opportunities here around Orange are abysmal. We'll stay a few days, see about seeing relatives, then head on to greener pastures ... literally.
