I re-did the last update from our adventures in the breath taking National Forests 'Davy Crockett, Angelina and Sabine River'. This time more organized, with the pictures in order of travel.
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Coming to you from Lufkin, Texas. We have been enjoying the tranquility and convenience of Davy Crockett National Park just a bit West of here. What a beautiful National Forest! I hope ya'll go on out to see it! Camp Hosts there let us onto another way of living free. National Forests let you stay free on their camp sites in exchange for 20hrs of work a week. There are many Americans who live in tents, trailers or RVs just cruzing onto which ever National Park strikes their fancy. We've even heard a rumor that they might accept foreigners for this job.
Tonight we hope to find a free camp site at Angelina National Forest. We have been trading the Park Rangers camping spaces for help cleaning garbage from trails and public areas within the Forests. We are happy to report that Fea the travelling Chihuahua was very free and happy visiting her first forest. She joined David, Milo and me on a 5km walk yesterday and is ready for more forest views and smells tonight. Just recently we received the following link. Turns out we're not the only lunatics traveling around with their dogs. Check it out!
http://grenzenlos2001.wordpress.com/interesting/cyclists-travelers/ As Texas is the almost biggest state of the US, it takes us a while to get through it, even with the occasional ride. The only state bigger than Texas is Alaska, which by the way is over twice the size of Texas.
As the first days or better said first week was brutally hot, we have been met by the first cold front of our trip. It came complete with thunderstorm and copious amounts of rain. As being the tradition we pitched our tent in the lowest spot we could find to find ourselves ten minutes later in four inches of water. The video will follow shortly. Nonetheless Texas has been very good to us so far. The dumpsters on our current route are fuller than the ones on the Gulf coast when we came south and 'Friendly Texans' is not a sarcastic joke as I always thought. Texans are in fact extremely friendly, with the necessary exception of course. (referring to the man who reached for his gun when he saw us preparing a meal on his church's grounds.) However, Texas is slowly running out from underneath our still awesome Schwalbe Marathon tyres (thank you again Huntington Cycle and Sport) as we approach Louisiana where without question there will be more adventures waiting for us. But before we leave Texas we get to visit at least two national forests: Davy Crockett and Sabine. We have no idea what to expect because nobody we've asked has ever been there. Although I expect lots of trees. Relaxing in a posh, public library in Uvalde, Texas, David and I are bursting with all the love that we have been shown by our fellow man. This past week has been an adventure made possible by generous people from Monclova to Uvalde and beyond! |
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