Into Texas

Thursday, April 16 – Waking to a beautiful sunrise over the bayou, we cleaned up camp and headed out before long. Bugs weren't a problem in the morning so we ate a can of peaches, fueled up and started heading west through Houma.

We stopped at a library in Kaplan, checked e-mails and geocaching info. Tyne was busy with her Facebook, so I went outside with Dazey and read in the grass. Somehow she found a dead rotting fish and decided to have a roll in it. Before leaving town we had to stop at a car wash and spray the funk off her.

We crossed into Texas by 2pm and decided to find a camp on this side of Houston. A few miles from the interstate on a country road, we turned off onto a dead end road and then onto a 4-wheeler trail. 100 yards in we found a good camp and set up for the night. The bugs were much better here than the night before, but still were biting. We took a walk down the sandy trails through a young pine forest.

It was blazing hot when we got back. Probably only about 80 degrees but the sun beat down like no other. Dazey was off tearing through the woods while Tyne and I worked on fixing a couple curtains and getting dinner ready. Tyne had planned out a meal of Speghetti and meatballs. Ramen noodles, Ragu sauce, and canned beef chunks actually tasted pretty good, except that we ran out of propane halfway through. No matter though, half crunchy noodles with lukewarm sauce and fatty bits of canned meat hit the spot.

Right before dark we heard a 4-wheeler riding the trails. Finally it got closer and 4 kids on a single ATV stopped by the van. The oldest (about 10) said, "Are y'all living out here?"

"Only for the night, if that's ok." The little boy said sure why not and hit the gas. We considered making a fire. Too tired. We considered playing some cards. Too tired. It was about 830 when we lay down and hit the sack. We needed a good nights sleep, and there was a rain storm coming in anyways.

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