Fajitas and Fox Hounds and Finds Along the Road

After three nights at Martin Dies Jr. state park, we are on the road again. We are moving about 2.5 hours north. That's further than we normally move in the motor home in one day, so we took a break in the middle to explore the area around Center, Texas. We parked the motor home at the Walmart in town, and unhooked the car for a little exploring. We were just leaving the parking lot when a pickup pulled up beside us. He had seen us come out of our Tiffin motor home, and he owns a Tiffin as well. That makes us instant friends. Before we knew it, he was escorting us to his favorite meat market in town so we could buy their famous fajita meat. Before the day was over, we would have that marinated fajita meat on the grill for supper.

But we're jumping ahead of ourselves, as we are still in the little town of Center for now. We found it is the county seat, so Denisa had to see the court house. Each one of Texas's counties seems to have a personality of its own, as does its court house. This one is modeled after an Irish castle with its round turrets at each corner. 

We noticed that this area is surrounded by national forest land, so we set off into that green space on the map. Denisa had read about "Boles Field" and we managed to find it among all those trees in the Sabine National Forest. There's a little campground here where water and electric sites can be rented for $6 per night. But the real claim to fame is this little cemetery among the trees.

Started around the turn of the century, this is the final resting place for fox hounds from all over the United States and Canada. We found out that some of the world champion fox hounds are buried here among the pines where some of them loved to hunt.

We drove on to see the banks of the Toledo Bend Reservoir, but we weren't planning to kayak today. So after our fajita and fox hound adventure, we reunited with the motor home at Walmart and went on down the road to our destination near Marshall, Texas. We will be staying at Laguna Vista campground at their half-price Passport America rate for four nights. There is a little pond adjacent to the campground, and even though we are once again lined up in a row in a private park, it feels a little like we're out in the country.

We will poke around the town of Marshall, but the main reason we are here is to explore a place called Caddo Lake. As we settle in to our new camp site, we're eating those fajitas that a total-stranger-turned-friend told us about. We are amazed with the things we stumble upon on this adventure we are blessed to live.