Mar 17th to 19th - Lake Whitney to Bowie TX

Mar 17th - Tues - Lake Whitney
A couple that parked next to us in San Antonio had told us about a bakery in West with “the best” cinnamon rolls. We had actually gone through West on the way to Whitney. So we had to take a drive to get breakfast at the bakery. They have many varieties of rolls - I stuck with cinnamon/raisin and Terry had raspberry/cream cheese. We should have just split one roll! They were large and DELICIOUS! Well worth the drive. Also had to try the kulachi (another type of dough with sweet or meat filling) so we got a ground sausage and a pecan/cream cheese to go.
Stopped at a car wash and got diesel before taking a different route on the way back to go around Lake Whitney - nice lake and scenery. At the service station, the guy filling up beside us was from Spokane. He said he was also staying at Lake Whitney and Terry assumed at the same park as us. He wasn’t there so we drove to the state park to see if we could find him. We could not get in to look for him without paying the $3 each entry fee. Since we weren’t even sure if he was there, we didn’t go in.
We checked to see if anyone was catching anything in the indoor fishing area - very slow. We were sitting outside and Terry decided that the 5th wheel needed some cleaning. So we took a bucket and some cloths and cleaned it as far up as we could reach which was fine as the top was not dirty.
Barbequed dinner and had a quiet evening.

Mar 18th - Wed - to Bowie TX
We tried not to leave too early this morning as we didn’t want to hit rush hour traffic going through Ft. Worth on our way to Bowie which is north west of Ft. Worth. (The pecan kulachi was great for my breakfast!) Terry has a cousin (Theresa & husband Tom) who lives there and whom he had not seen since they were kids. We have been exchanging infrequent emails for about a year and trying to figure out if a visit would work into our route - and here we are.
We arrived about 1:00 and immediately started catching up on the last 45 years with Theresa. Theresa & Tom live on a cattle ranch, have another ranch in Oklahoma, Tom works as a pipe fitter and Theresa has a gift & antique store in Bowie. We took a break from chatting to set up our 5th wheel on their front lawn.
Theresa had told us that she would be making us dinner so I could just kick back.
Before we knew it, it was 10 o’clock and time to let them get to bed as Tom heads to work at 5:30.

Mar 19th - Thurs - Bowie
We finally wandered over to Theresa’s house about 10 and took along some laundry to take advantage of her offer to use the laundry facilities. We drank coffee, chatted, did laundry, watched the “hours old” calf in a field right by the house and had lunch before Theresa took us on a tour of the ranch on her 4 wheeler. They grow Bermuda grass for pasture and hay. They recently bought equipment to harvest & plant “sprigs”. The “sprig digger” is pulled over an established Bermuda grass field, digs up grass roots and throws them into a wagon. The ‘sprigger” then plants the roots in a bare or partially bare field. With a little rain (much needed in a lot of Texas), the newly planted field can be used for pasture within a few months.
Terry & I made a quick trip into Bowie to WalMart for a few items and then spent a couple of hours on the computer showing Theresa photos and jokes. She uses dial up for the internet so I put some jokes & pictures on a CD and loaded them on her computer. When Tom got home from work and then got back from clearing some land, we had him in tears laughing at some of the jokes.
Theresa cooked a great dinner for us again and we “thanked“ her by showing Alaska pictures until their eyes crossed!