Retirement Travels

  The last two nights we have stayed at another COE, Cedar Breaks Park in Georgetown, TX. It has been really nice here with temperatures dropping into the mid 50's overnight. We were finally able to sleep with the windows open rather than the air conditioning running. We noticed on the way in that there is a hiking trail in the park so we decided to check it out. We met a couple of women the night before who said there was falls about 2.5 miles in. We are glad we decided to check it out even though we found out the trail doesn't start until 1 mile or so in. Our total hike was just over 7 miles. Echo did great but he was tired. This is how the rocks looked on most of the trail. They were in the trail as well which made the it pretty rough walking. I am so thankful I brought our hiking shoes. This tree was growing up out of the rock. Yikes, a snake in the water. After going inside of the falls we were both pretty wet so we stayed cool on the walk back. We saw the fencing on the w...

  We arrived at this beautiful COE (Speegleville Park) on Sunday. We had a little trouble getting our RV in the site due to the pavilions they have in all the sites. We typically position the rig to the drivers side of the site so that we can reach electrical and water hookups however in this site when we went to open the slide the pavilion was a little too close for comfort. At 101 degrees outside, we were both  hot after finally getting it in a better position. On Monday, we drove into Waco to check out Magnolia Silos.  Chip & Joana Gaines have done a great job with this place.  Yes, we shared a frozen coffee. Next time we visit, we will go in the evening. This area was beautiful and you can see there are lights strung. It would be a place to sit and relax. There was a lonely flower on the magnolia tree. It would be hard not to walk away with something from the store. I thought these wood recipe cards were really cool. There were 3 of Joana's favorite reci...