We are on our third day here at Lake Livingston State Park just on the edge of Livingston, TX. The weather has been perfect, high 60s to low 70s and sunny. The park itself is a bit down on its luck. Due to the prolonged drought, they have lost about 10% of their pine trees. There are dead trees laying all over the place. The campground is about 10% occupied, which made me think the park is no longer popular. But I talked to a local, he says it is packed on weekends and all summer. They do offer free wifi, which surprises me.
While in western Louisiana, and driving across to Livingston, we were in the Piney Woods. It looks a lot like many parts of the deep South. In fact, that's a good way to look at it, this area is southern, not southwestern. You don't hardly see guys wearing cowboy boots and hats here as you do farther west. The town of Livingston is 5300 people, but feels much bigger because it is the county seat and shopping town for a good sized area. The industry looks to be A) logging, and B) some small ranching. It's not a resort area. Just a working class rural area with a big lake next door. We went out to visit the world headquarters of the Escapees, an organization for RVers in general and full time RVers in particular. We also poked around a couple of pawn shops, something neither of us had ever done. Everything seemed overpriced. Maybe that's to leave room to haggle? But they had a lot of movies on sale for two bucks apiece. So that, and sitting in the 72 degree sunshine or around the campfire, is what we have been doing for excitement.
Oh well, that's a wrap from the Piney Woods. Tomorrow we make a short journey over to the north suburbs of Houston, where we will be staying in an interesting park. Then after that we begin hitting the "snowbird" destination spots.
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