Lake Ouachita State Park, to be exact. Very nice park, with some VERY nice amenities! You know, it’s really sad, but Texas State Parks kinda suck, when you see what other States have to offer. Texas is supposed to be the “biggest and the best”, but we sure do ignore our State Parks. Sad.

Anyway. More stuff we forgot, and some stuff we need for the trailer (it’s nice when your sewer hose is long enough to reach as far as it needs – don’t want it to be taut as a banjo string!), so in to town we go, to the nearest WalMart. I hate shopping there, but these days, they’ve run everyone else out of business in small-town America (which is why I hate shopping there).

Also, we’re tired from moving the tree yesterday, so we forego riding, but we do drive out to the Little Blakely trailhead, and hike a small portion of the trail, since we’ll be riding it tomorrow. On the way there, we come across some wildlife – first, there’s an owl in the middle of the road. Sadly, he took off before I got a photo of him, but that was pretty cool. Second, there’s a wild turkey in the middle of the road! HE takes off before I can get a photo of him. Can’t win!

Here are some photos I did manage to take:

This is the Bridge you cross to get to Little Blakely (on the trail to the trail, so to speak):

This is the trail itself, about half a mile in:

Oh yeah – at the trailhead, we see this:

Yeah, we’re back in bear country! Of course, here they only have black bears, so no big deal. Bear spray not really necessary. That’s for Grizzly country further North. But here is a shot of the lake near the trailhead:

Yes, it’s beautiful!