We left Lake Colorado City State Park and made our way to northern Texas. Our first two-week stay was at Clear Lake Campground on Lavon Lake east of Dallas, Texas. It is run by the Army Corps of Engineers, and it was a lovely place to call home for a time.
The sites are very nicely spaced apart, and we had a pretty view of the lake. Wildflowers were blooming in the field on the other side of the Airstream. Murphy and I spent most of our days walking to the shore of the lake so that he would swim and wear himself out. The park was not crowded or full during the week, but it would get very busy on the weekends. That is OK with us, as we usually do our laundry and shopping on the weekends, and our recreation during the week.
Murphy photo bombing my picture.
This was the shot I was aiming for.
I swear the dog is part dolphin. It is near impossible to keep him out of the water.
There were a few rainy days, but that is expected in spring.
The day before we were supposed to check out and move to our next stop, we got a phone call from the state park we had booked for the next 2 weeks. Lake Texoma State Park was experiencing very high water levels, and the site we had booked was closed due to flooding. They did have other spots available in a different part of the park, so we went ahead and took the offered campsite.
Since Aaron had a company truck, I had to do the towing of the camper. I don’t tow it very often, so this was good for me. If ever Aaron were not able to drive, I need to be comfortable towing and parking the rolling house. I will say, driving through and around such a metropolitan area as Dallas was a bit intimidating. My nerves were shot, but I did a good job. This picture is from my Snapchat story.
I was excited for our new spot, It was in Floyd’s campground in the state park. My grandpa’s name was Floyd, so I thought it was pretty cool to park here for a few weeks.
This was the view from our site. As you can tell from the trees in the middle of the water, the lake was crazy high. And it only continued to rise.
We stayed in that spot for 2 nights before the park called us again. They were worried that our site was going to flood and asked if we could move to another site, still in Floyd’s, but up a hill and further from the water. We semi-packed up and moved across the street, up the hill.
I still took Murphy down to the water, considering his part-dolphin heritage, but didn’t really let him swim. There was so much trash washed up from the lake. I was really mad about it, too. People use the lake for boating, fishing, and swimming, but do not respect it enough to take care of it, and throw away their trash. It really frustrates me! It won’t be a beautiful place to spend time if it is abused and trashed.
We stayed in our new spot for 2 days, and then got another call. We would need to move sites again for the night and would have to leave the park the next day by 2 pm. The park was closing due to rising water levels. Aaron was at the new office trying to set it up, so I was scrambling to find us a new home for the remaining week and a half we were supposed to be at Lake Texoma.
I found 1 spot available about 30 minutes away at Murray Lake State Park in Oklahoma for the rest of the week. It was a lovely state park, but the campground was very crowded. We were very grateful we had somewhere to go, and Murphy, as usual, enjoyed swimming in the lake. I was getting more towing experience than expected, and it was a good reminder to always have a plan B in mind, in case of something like flooding occurs.
I was also able to reserve a spot for us at Hickory Creek Campground in Lewisville Lake, just north of Dallas, for the following week.
I want to take a moment to thank everyone who reads and follows my blog. I will be back in a week or two with more Texas adventures.
Wandering Cindi 