When you open yourself up to life, Life opens up to you!: Lake Tawakoni

4/22/2020

It's been a while since we have posted. As I told a friend of mine, just haven't been able to find my inner muse. We are in Northeast Texas at Lake Tawakoni (Ta -Wa-ka-ni). The name translating to River Bend Among Red Sand Hills is also the name of the Native America people who lived and live in the area. We were very fortunate to have stopped here on our journey. Our plan was to stay here for a week and then start heading north to the Badlands, Yellowstone, Grand Teton and onward. COVID-19 had other plans for us as well as the rest of the world. Twas at this time the world as we knew it stopped. All reservations were canceled as parks across the country closed. That was back in Mid-March and looks like we are here until the end of April.

The campground is great, large with lots of room for walking and biking. If you are into fishing and boating it would be perfect. Normally, there are two pools, two activity centers, the usual playground, miniature golf, and lots of programs and gatherings. Of course, at this time all that is unavailable as “Social Distancing” is the new norm for now. This campground is part of a membership program called Thousand Trails, one we debated buying into and yet are so glad we did. This program has allowed us and all their members to “shelter - in- place. Normally, depending on your membership level you can stay at one of their parks for 7 to 21 days, but when all hell broke loose they have allowed anyone already at the campground to stay until further notice at no additional cost.

We did have to change sites a week after being here as we came during a time of heavy rain storms that caused the Sabine River above us to flood which in turn caused the lake to overflow it's banks. Our site was about 10 – 15 yards from the waters edge when we got here and, well, about 5 feet from our unit when we sought a site more inland. The sites here are generously large and with the closing of new reservations and many of the people here that were now heading back to their homes, the place is virtually empty. Which is fine by us. Quiet is good. The staff has been great with keeping things running a smoothly as possible and always friendly.

As mentioned our activities include walking, biking, as well as, reading, chatting together, planning what's next, playing games, and I did some hand sewing and made a pillow. Oh Yes, My first attempt at cutting Paul's hair! Came out rather well and no blood was shed. LOL Another bigger transpired, Paul is now reading from a kindle! And he thought it could never happen, HA!

Mirror Image LOL

An entertaining tidbit: Our RV is rather unique in that it has no slides. So with this in mind imagine our surprise when the same one pulled into the site next to us! Couple years older but yep another Coachman Freelander 27QB. That tickled me.

We are hoping we will be able to continue northward soon. Once we do, we will be on our way to Washington, we won't be stopping along the way except for the night at whatever campground we find open. We will load up on groceries before we leave so as not to have to stop along the way and as our RV is self-contained we will continue not using facilities at rest stops or campgrounds. Once there we will slow down just a little as we make our way across the state to be near our daughter and family. At that time a new phase of our journey shall begin and more about that at a later date.

Until next time we can only wish all to Be Safe and Be Well. We are doing what needs to be done and hope everyone else is as well so we can move beyond this shadow and find a new normal.

Photos of the campground flooding