On the road sort of .

Well we left Anahuac yesterday with great hope of at least going our normal 200 to 250 miles . Well as always we made only 100 miles and the truck had a little fit . A check engine light and then as a diesel it went into creeper mode . That is it would only do 25 miles per hour . You know how well that works on any highway. We managed to find an RV Park close by and get the rig into a slot . That was a relief and then the other shoe dropped . Found a diesel shop who looked at it  and found the problem , but couldn't get to it for a week . So off to a GMC dealer and they got to the problem and then bam, $5000. to fix , oh well , just another day . Should have the truck back on Monday and back on the road . Yea. Still cheaper than new truck payments .                                                          G

Finally Fixed , Maybe

I know it's been some time since my last post . It seems every time Windows 10 does a major update they always manage to mess up everything I have on this machine . Google Photo stopped working and it took me 10 hours of very pain full and just plain getting peed of to make it all to start working again . I guess Micro soft wants me to buy a new system . Only it won't be their  product this time . Enough wining from me .  I hope  you enjoy what few pictures I could find 

Well we finally took some time to do some sight seeing . We went to Austin , the state capital to see the State House and of course the most awesome sight you can witness there . Millions of bats pouring out from under the Congress Street bridge . We sat there for almost two hours and watched as a small stream of bats turned into a stream of tens of thousands . I only posted this one shot as they are really fast and my old camera isn't  All those little blurs in the sky are bats .. We enjoyed the view from our blanket down below in the park.

We went to the Fort at Goliad  that General Fannin from the Texas Revolution did his last stand . Here he and his men were executed after he surrendered to the Mexican army. In this picture you can see all the Flags that have flown over this Mission over the years .

One of the early Texas flags from the revolution .

Another early Texas Revolution flags . Funny how some phrases can inspire people .

As with most fortress structures in the west . The early ones started out as Missions , built by the Spanish .

This Flag has a great story . The folks wanting Independence from Mexico stated that they would rather cut off their right arm than stay under the rule of the Mexico . So they flew this flag in defiance over the Fort .

Lauren standing on the Monument marking the mass grave of Fannin and all his men .

Very sad , when you see all the names of the 445 men who died here.

In the Refuge we have a pair of Crested CaraCaras who have now brought into our area a new little one .

Mom on her nest on one of the refuges solar water towers .

Here it's been summer for almost a month and there are young every where we go now . Lots of baby Gators .

All manor of Cactus and flowers are in bloom.

As and added bonus , we have Roseate Spoonbills are nesting in Shoveler Pond . The main object of most visitors here .

Lots of Ibis and Herons on the marshes . Here in East Texas it hasn't rained now in almost a month and things are really dry . a number of the marsh areas are now just dry, cracked mud .

Well I hope I can keep this Computer going for a little longer . I really miss sharing our pictures here . We re also lookin forward to our next adventure. We leave here in 17 days and move onto a new refuge for us and do a little sight seeing on the trip up north . New Jersey of all places .