Traveling with the Longdogs

We checked into the Texas Ramblin' Roses rally at Oakdale Motor Inn and RV Park in Glen Rose TX after an hour's drive over from McCown Valley COE on Sunday afternoon. Elaine and I had buddy sites but there will be more on that in another post. Monday morning after coffee at the rally room, Elaine, Shelley, Janie, and I headed over to Fossil Rim Wildlife Center.

We checked in and started the drive around the park.

Trotting towards us to get some of the food from us.

Not everyone raced over to get the food.

Check out the "beard on this guy".

This guy got his treats from the car ahead of us and then trotted towards us to get more.

You were only supposed to hand feed the giraffes but throw the food out for all the other animals. Giraffes were very gentle take the nuggets.

This baby giraffe was nibbling on the tree and wasn't interested in approaching the cars.

We took a break at the Visitor's Center store.

The view from the outside balconey was great.

We also walked through the petting zoo next to the store.

Back on the road again.

The cheetahs and rhinos were the only animals fenced off and you can't stop and approach the fences.

After we finished we met some of the other women at Grumps Burgers for lunch.

Several of the women at the Granger Rally including my sister-in-law Elaine headed to McCown Valley COE on Lake Whitney after the rally. They planned to spend time there before going to the next rally in Glen Rose. Unfortunately, I had to head home for a week. The jacks on my RV were a little reluctant to go up when I left Granger which was a bit scary. I've never had a problem before but I had to take the RV in to have the caulking redone in the right color so I had the jacks checked as well. I thought maybe they were low on fluid after reading the manual. Texas Hill Country Coach RV checked them all out and did some minor maintenance on them while I was there. Everybody but my sister-in-law Elaine was scheduled to leave McCown Valley COE on Thursday or Friday but our reservation at Glen Rose didn't start until Sunday. I headed up there on Thursday morning. The drive was very relaxing after a challenging week and I saw bluebonnets along the way but had no opportunity to take photos.

The park at McCown has been around a while so, while the sites in our area in our section were pull-through, the half-circle shape was very small. Getting in the right spot to get level was somewhat of a challenge but I got it done.

Each site had a covered table and a fire pit.

Elaine was in the site right behind me.

Several other friends were right around us.

After the others left Friday morning, Elaine, Harley, and I decided to check out several of the other COE parks on the lake as well as the state park.