Our adventures took us to Forth Worth, Texas this week to celebrate Carson’s (our son-in-law) Masters’ Degree at TCU. State parks and supper clubs will have to wait a week. But not ‘splorin’. It was just a little different and a little “spread out” over two days.
Saturday morning we got up early (6:00 am) as we usually do for breakfast. We drove through the POURING rain to meet with one of Tammy’s former co-workers at The Egg and I in Denton, Tx. Now, it was not our usual “mom and pop” place, but the food was VERY GOOD and the omelettes and benedicts actually came with a salad! Trudy moved to Tx a few years ago with her kids and grandkids and we have tried to visit before but it hasn’t worked out — this was our last chance since our kids are moving to NC! It was so great to spend some time with this wonderful lady — lots of laughs and memories of our time spent in the lobby of Putnam Heights.
We left the restaurant and it was STILL rainy so we decided to skip the “splorin” for a little while and drove back to the house we were sharing with Carson’s family. The rain finally let up to a drizzle so we decided to see what we could see in the neighborhood — no way we are going to a park in the mud! It was a beautiful neighborhood and we were able to walk about 4.5 miles. We discovered some distinctly Texan neighborhood things along the way– cactus and even chickens, as well as a small park. While we were able to avoid mud, it was still pretty wet.
The park was situated along Fossil “creek” — although with all the rain it was more like a ragin’ river:
All in all a nice walk in the rain. Our “supper club” this night, was also a little unconventional. I guess the Texas equivalent to a Wi Supper Club would be, of course, Barbeque, so in honor of Carson’s masters’ degree, we all went to his favorite BBQ restaurant: Heim All I can say is: SO-MUCH-FOOD!
Before the rain changed our plans on Saturday, we were going to go hiking at the Fort Worth Nature Center. Since we had brunch reservations with the family on Sunday at 10:00 we decided we could still get our hike in there if we got up bright and early so we were there when they opened at 7 am.
There weren’t many people around so we were excited to get started. Knowing how hard it had rained the night day before, we were a bit skeptical about the trail conditions, but decided to head out anyway. The map we got included information for all the trails and I was excited to see that we would be walking through a bison range and prairie dog town — animals! Trail Map
We soon were in the midst of fields of beautiful wild flowers and so far the trail was looking pretty good.
But it didn’t take long for that to change and we were faced with making our own way through the sides of very wet trails. Now this was a lot different than when were were in Interstate Park — the earth had a lot of clay in it so you didn’t sink down in to a lot of water. BUT it was thick MUD and it extended to the edge of trees on both sides quite often. We both returned to our VRBO “home” with quite a few scrapes and scratches as we had to maneuver our way around mud. And despite the name, there were no buffalo on the range.
Before we left, we took a quick drive down the the marsh boardwalk. A very beautiful space where we did encounter our second large turtle of the day.
We politely made our way around him and got a pic of the beautiful view
We were back “home” by a little after 9:30am and ready to go out to brunch for Mother’s Day — after drying Mike’s shoes and a nice long shower. We are still on a quest for DRY hiking trails….
Splorin' Saturday 