Drove about 6 hours to tonight’s campsite in Fort Richardson State Park, which is not too far west of Fort Worth Texas. It was 84 degrees when I arrived at 5 pm.
Another very nice state park. There are other trailers and RVs here, but from my campsite I can only see two of them. 
Tomorrow I have a 5 hour drive straight south to a campground a little southwest of Austin, in Texas Hill Country. I’m really looking forward to it. Wikipedia has a page on “Texas Hill Country”.
Camped at El Dorado State Park about 15 miles northeast of Wichita Kansas. Very nice state park and campground.
Today I drove a section of I70 that is called the U.S. Submarine Veterans Memorial Highway.
As I’ve driven south from Milwaukee, there are more leaves and more color on the trees. Mostly yellow with orange starting to show up. The weather my first two days driving west and south has been beautiful, cool but sunny. If it’s sunny tomorrow as I head straight south, it might be a beautiful drive.
I haven’t had a bad experience with a state park, inexpensive, and I haven’t stayed at a bad one.
Tomorrow it will be a 5 hour drive to Fort Richardson State Park in Texas.
On my way to Texas Hill Country, West Texas, and then back to the San Juan River in the the northwest corner of New Mexico. I had this trip planned and canceled. Sunday night while watching Anthony Bourdain take one of his last trips to West Texas, the trip was on again.
Drove about 9 hours to get to my first campground in Nine Eagles State Park located in south central Iowa just a few miles north of Missouri. 9 hours is about 3 or 4 hours more than I want to drive per day while towing a trailer.
Leaving this Saturday, the 27th, for a one month trip to Texas Hill Country, West Texas, and 10 days back at the San Juan River.
Serious flooding in Texas, so I don’t know…
This year, I have two 10 Packs of Milwaukee Brewer tickets which gives me the right to buy 4 tickets to every home postseason game. I won’t be going anywhere until the Brewers win it all or get eliminated.
Sometime around October 12th I will begin a Texas Road Trip, Texas Hill Country, West Texas, and the Texas BBQ Trail.
Three things I noticed during my trip;
Almost everyone is pleasant if you are
Traffic, places that were cool are jammed
Self Storage facilities are everywhere, why
Heading home. Camped at Cheyenne Mountain State Park on the outskirts of Colorado Springs. Very nice with full hook up. It’s right across the interstate from Fort Carson, an army base. When I was passing through the campground’s entry station, I could hear Taps playing over a speaker. It was exactly 5 pm. I don’t know.
Colorado Springs from my campsite.
Very nice homes towards the mountain. Went into a wine store a few miles from here. Selling wines like Opus One and $200 decanters. They had a cheap section.
Didn’t fish today. It’s pretty windy yet a beautiful day. Driving back to Colorado tomorrow, so I went grocery shopping in Aztec, Colorado, a town about 20 miles west of my campground, and generally just relaxed. Had a good brisket sandwich in a little dive in Aztec, drove back home (my campground) and had a couple of beers in the breezy shade. Life is good.
Here are photos of each side of the dam, a big footprint.
The face of the dam. You can drive across the top or down the face of the dam to go to the little town of Navajo Dam.
Just below the dam where I’ve done most of my fishing.
The little town of Navajo Dam. Abe’s, the fly shop I got my guide through, is the long cream colored building on the left side of the street. There are a couple more little fly shops and a couple of diner/taverns down there. Nothing else for 20 miles. My campground is two miles to the right. There are Park rangers and campground hosts. I feel safer here than I do driving around at home.
My trailer is in the center. The river is on the other side of the trees.
Abe’s, which I’ve grown fond of. Nothing negative to say about the other shops here. I bought flies and ate at the other places and have no complaints.
