In May we were running from the high water in Louisiana and now in Texas they are praying for any amount of water.

We have all heard about the drought in Texas.  Laurie’s sister lives outside of Austin and whenever we talk with her, the drought is a prime topic.  So yes, we knew about the drought, yet to see it first hand is totally different.  Today we passed fields of crops that were totally brown and others that were struggling to survive.  Crossing bridges we saw little to no water where rivers and lakes should be.  We don’t know how much water Texas needs to get back to normal levels yet it has to be a large amount.

Tonight we are staying at a Corps of Engineers Park on Hord’s Creek Lake outside Coleman, TX and this large lake is almost dry.  There are two sections to the park; one section has 57 RV sites and the other has 77 RV sites.  We are one of three RVs in the
entire park, both sections.  The lake is so low that most of the boat docks and ramps are out of the water on dry land.

In the late afternoon there were nine deer in our backyard.  The deer were greater in number than the RVers.   A beautiful area that should be full of families enjoying the last of summer was a ghost town.