Lone Star Corral, Hondo, Texas

We have arrived at our campground from which we will explore the San Antonio area.  Lone Star Corral is an Escapees park.  However, it is different from the Escapee Rainbow Parks, two of which we have stayed in recently—Rainbow’s End in Livingston, TX and Rainbow Plantation in Summerdale, AL.  This is a co-op park in which all sites are owned by Escapee members.  Each site consists of a gravel pad for an RV, a gravel yard (some have been landscaped better than others), and a small building at the back of the site.  The building is more than a storage shed; they are about 8 X 20 maybe and most have a screened in porch area.  If the owner is away, the site may be rented on a nightly basis to other Escapee members traveling in the area.  That is how we happened to be here and are planning to stay a week.  The price is similar to the other Escapee parks--$18. per night plus electricity.  There is also a nice clubhouse where there are activities going on much of the time including crafts, quilting, singing, cards, exercise, and line dancing.  They offer a few meals during the week.  We got here just in time for hamburgers today.  We pulled in the park at 11:20, got registered, drove to our site, parked, leveled, hooked up the electricity, put the slides out, turned on the air conditioner, and threw the cat inside in time to get to the clubhouse for hamburgers at noon.  Of course, there is the afternoon social hour at 4 and ice cream social on Sunday evening.  Very typical of all the Escapee parks.

Our drive this morning was more of the same of South Texas.  I took a few photos out the window so that you might see that it is really nothing special.  At least, not to an old Tennessee gal who loves the mountains and trees.  Notice the blue sky and imagine the warmth.  That is what it is all about for most winter Texans.

Tomorrow we plan to head into San Antonio.  The first thing on my agenda is to put the camera in for cleaning.  Gene called this afternoon and they promise to have it ready by Friday.  That’s much better than I expected.  After the camera shop we will probably go to the Alamo, but it may depend on where the camera shop is located.  We’ll see.