This has never happened before on a travel day!

It's another travel day on our long trip to the southern tip of Texas, and something happened that we have never experienced in our six years of RV travel. We're ready to leave Choke Canyon, and we will say it again--we're big fans of the Texas state park system. This is another great park with nice level spacious camp sites. We would have stayed longer if they weren't completely booked up for the weekend. Because of the sighting of the rare Spotted Rail, they had a full campground even during the week. While camped here, it was fun to see the deer and javelinas walking right by our picnic table.

Besides the animals walking through our campground, there are plenty birds flying overhead. A very popular bird blind is just a few steps away from our camp site, and Denisa visited it every day. She loves spotting interesting birds like this cedar waxwing with his cool sunglasses and pompadour hairdo.

We were there long enough to figure out the feeding schedule at the bird blind. The birding host fills the feeders around 7:30 a.m. That's when those obnoxious grackles swoop in to scare off all the cute birds. They really do have terrible bird feeder manners, and aren't good at sharing!

A few medium-sized birds will fly in for a quick bite, but those grackles dominate the food for the first part of the morning.

Then the red wing black birds take over the feeder. Denisa loves a bird with a good descriptive name like that.

These volunteers know their clientele. Besides seeds, they also leave citrus for the fruit-loving birds like the green jays.

Mrs. Cardinal preferred the bird seed, 

while Mr. Cardinal was trying a grapefruit for breakfast.

No, none of these bird sightings have anything to do with our "never-happened-before-on-a-travel-day" experience. Just in case you would think that Denisa only takes pictures of birds, we include a photo of one of our campground neighbors.  This space-ship-like trailer pulled in for a two-night stay so its occupants could see that rare Spotted Rail.  When we googled the "Bowlus Road Chief " trailer name, we found it had a surprising price tag. These trailers range in price from $190,000 to $240,000. Wow!

It's a light-weight trailer,  and they are towing it with a Tesla electric car. Double Wow! But no, this has nothing to do with our "never-happened-before-on-a-travel-day" experience.

After three days at Choke Canyon State Park, we're now on the road again. We're driving a section of the south Texas highway that we have seen many times before. We realized that we took no pictures as the scenery changed from mesquite and live oak trees into palm trees. We really like Texas highways, with their wide shoulders and smooth pavement. From driving all over this country, we see that Texas has some of the best maintained highways in the United States. In fact, we talked about how nice the roads were today. 

So we were really surprised when something happened that we had never experienced before. After two and a half hours on the road, we saw that our roll of paper towels hanging in the kitchen had completely unrolled. We guess that smooth undulating highway provided just the right rhythm to make that happen. After six years of driving our motor home down the road, we're still experiencing firsts. We didn't say that it was an exciting first--just a first. 

Yes, it doesn't take much to impress us. Whether it's fun birds, unusual RVs, or a roll of paper towels, we're still in awe of how much fun we have in our full-time RVing life-style.