27: The Deep South β Road Trip Pt. III
The conclusion of the road trip.
- Windy KOA campsite
- Tucumcari, New Mexico (1651 miles traveled)
- Diner, Route 66, windmills, pastures, cattle, hawks
- West Texas border, sandstorm, dog
- Clint and Melody, aka The State Parkers
- Sushi, hot saki, pork katsu
- Featured in Outside Magazine
- Milton Reimers Ranch Park | 512-264-1923
23610 Hamilton Road, Dripping Springs, TX 78620
30.3638,-98.1224 π - Wildflowers (bluebonnets) and pencil cactus
- Cavernous gully with sycamore trees, maidenhair ferns, Virginia creeper, and poison ivy
- Ball mosses and scarlet penstemon
- Stalactites and stalagmites
- Elm leaf, false dayflower, and fern fronds
- Memorial Day floods
- Desert false indigo (part of the pea family)
- Lunch: breakfast tacos
- Froghopper nests, brown cockleburs, and bluecurl flowers
What’s a michelada?
- Milton Reimers Ranch Park | 512-264-1923
- Blue Bell ice cream
Is Graeter’s from Ohio not good enough?
- Blue Bell ice cream
- Houston (2365 miles traveled)
- Tim V the Texan Camper, aka Trail Aesthetics
- Entering Lousiana
- Slab car
- Oak Alley Plantation Restaurant & Inn | 225-265-2151
3645 Highway 18 (Great River Road), Vacherie, Louisiana USA 70090
30.0050,90.7789 π - The American Queen cruise ship
- Oak Alley Plantation Restaurant & Inn | 225-265-2151
- Complimentary breakfast
- Camping at a nearby park
- Evansville (3385 miles traveled)
- Epilogue: Thomas hikes Maineβs Mount Katahdin
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