The Longdogs

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Showing posts with label Lake Conroe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lake Conroe. Show all posts

Visit to Old Town Spring

April Fool's Day.....how could I have forgotten? Probably because we have been so busy the last week or so. Well we are off on another sightseeing trip today, to Old Town Spring. Deb came over and picked me up and we were off. We had to head back down towards Houston but traffic wasn't bad. I saw a sign for it when we went past heading north but it was a lot more elusive heading south. Of course, it would have helped had we turned the GPS on before we set out.


Old Town Spring is a quaint little shopping area, a little touristy but fun. They have a museum but it was closed.

Anyone need a hospital for their dolls? This place was actually pretty large.

Antique shops are popular wherever you go.

Must have been some Louisiana residents resettled here.

This was not the only Pet Boutique in town. They had specialty foods and lots of parphenalia for our furry friends.

We visited a bead shop with hundreds of different kinds of beads....Deb makes jewelry. An then we had lunch at Ellen's. It was larger inside than you would think and there were tons of customers.

A caboose parked along the main street.



Lots of unique little shops.

There are also homes in the area that are interesting.

All in all, we had a very nice day. We drove back to Lake Conroe to the Thousand Trails where we picked up Duncan, Deb's beautiful long haired dachshund and headed back to Park on the Lake. The dachsies were all happy to see each other again. I was planning to cook a couple of steaks on the grill but the wind picked up pretty briskly so I had to cook them in a pan. Definitely not the same. We all relaxed and enjoyed each other's company.

On to Lake Conroe

Monday morning dawned bright and clear and we were all off but there was no rush to head out.

Karen and Carolyn were the first out at 0900 on their way to East Texas and Louisiana. Sue was headed back to the Rio Grande Valley. Liz and Kim went east to another outing on Mustang Island. Vicki was heading north to Houston a little later on. Diana planned a few more days over at the Galveston State Park. I was headed north to Lake Conroe with Deb for a few days.

And we are off......


Houston was coming in to view......


Deb had already made arrangements to stay at the Thousand Trails on Lake Conroe. Since they were not very friendly price-wise to none members, I found a nice Passport America park which was only a couple of miles away.  Deb turned off to the left to her park and I continued on to "Park at the Lake".


After I checked in and headed back further into the park, I got backed in and set up. It was a nice site.

View out my big back window.....canal leading to the lake. If I had a boat, I could tie right up to my site.

View out my door......granted, there was a 5th wheel just forward of the tree on the left. I really did luck out though. I think my neighbors must be seasonal and it wasn't the weekend so on one side no one ever showed up. And on the other side, a man was there working on his yard in the evenings. It was very peaceful.


Further down the road was a little island with a bridge leading to it where we met this bird. Two big dogs did bark at us scaring me but they were tied and quickly hushed by their owner.


Very deceiving view since the RVs actually had plenty of space between them.

Looking from the island back to the other side of the park.

Ah yes, we were quite comfortable here. There was a nice pool and hot tub and they also had a clubhouse.

I just love traveling.