Visiting Flame & Pyro in Texas

     Friday, March 1st, we hooked up the trailer, said good-bye to our fellow NOMADS, and headed east away from Phoenix around 8 am. We drove east on I-10 past Tucson and on in to New Mexico, stopping near Deming for the night.

We camped at Rockhound SP, which is nestled up against some jagged mountains.

Our campsite @ Monahan Sandhills SP in west Texas

    The next morning we headed down the road and rolled into Texas at El Paso. We drove until mid-afternoon when we arrived at Monahan Sandhills SP.

 Nearing sunset

People rent plastic saucers or sleds to slide down the dunes

    We got one of the few remaining sites that would fit our trailer and headed for a walk on the dunes after setting up camp. The next morning we were off to an early start and drove to about 60 miles south of Dallas where we camped at Lofer Bend Campground (a COE cmpgnd). In the morning we drove to Pyro & Flame's home near Edgewood where we would enjoy the next 3 days visiting our friends from the AT. We went to visit an old estate of Mrs. Lee who had planted a boxcar load of Daffodils around the property years ago. Late afternoon we went for a nice walk on the trails around Flame & Tom's land. That evening we were pleased to meet Flame's sister Norma, niece Carla and her 2 children. They came all the way over from Tyler to meet us. Thank you.

Flame spent most of last summer painting their house a new color scheme.

The carport they had installed last year was a valuable addition.

 Tberry & Flame in front of Mrs. Lee's cabin

Monday afternoon Flame took us to Mrs. Lee's Daffodil ranch.

Dozens of acres of yellow beauty. Very nice!

 Salt Palace Museum

     Tuesday Flame took us to visit the Salt Palace museum in nearby Grand Saline. After that we visited the Southwest Dairy Farmers Museum near Sulphur  Springs. Very interesting time at both places.

When saw this fellow and immediately thought of our long distance hiking/biking friends Snake Hips and Spud from the AT

     Wednesday morning we headed to Mineral Wells SP to meet Jeriatric, who lives near Fort Worth. The 5 of us went out for a 6 mile hike thru the park. On the way home that afternoon we drove by the stadiums that the Rangers and Cowboys play in. We stopped at Mr. Biggs Smokehouse for some great Texas BBQ. Yum, yum! The next morning we headed east again to begin the trek to Alabama for our next NOMADS project at Blue Lake Assembly camp near Andalusia. It was hard to leave Flame and Tom's after having such a nice time seeing them again. Thank you again for the wonderful hospitality you showed "the Yoopers". We hope it works out for us to host you at our place in the not to distant future.

Our campsite in Roosevelt SP near Jackson, MS Thursday night