5/30 Went to Abilene to see mus. "Frontier Texas".

 

A museum with life-sized holographic figures talking about Texas between 1780-1880.

                                               Interesting story about life in the frontier.

5/29 At Lake Mineral Wells St. Park, just west of Fort Worth.

                                         View from out the back of our camp site.
                First we had to go across the spillway of the lake, abit scary, to get to camp site.

                                    View looking at our site from across the lake.

We had to go back across the spillway to leave.

                            Water is coming out of spillway wall. We are below the water line.

5/27 Dick got a set of longhorns at Traders Village swap meet.

                                           Deciding were to put his new horns.

5/27 Dallas, bbq and skyline of city.

                                     Went to 6th floor mus. and JFK memorial, interesting.

           Went to Wild Bills Western Store in Dallas.

5/26 Went to the downtown historic section of Ft. Worth called the Stockyard. This is were the cattle and other stock were herded too and then sold in the old days.

 The stockyard area is interesting . This is a maze that people can go through for fun.

 The sidewalks have stars for the famous cowboys/girls. This is the actor who wa the Lone Ranger.

                     These used to be the pens that held hogs and sheep, now they are toursit shops.

                         Skyline of Fort Worth, below is an interesting building in the city.

5/25 At Cedar Hill St. Park on Joe Pool Lake. Didn't get a lakeview site this time. 98 degrees and lost our a/c for a day and night. Just south of  Ft. Worth and Dallas.

 

                                                Big lake,  lots of boating and fishing.

                                                 Some sites have views but we didn't.

5/24 At Lake Whitney St. Park overlooking lake. Very windy with waves and whitcaps right now.

5/22 Park showing dinosaur models and tracks we saw of them in the river.

                                                  Dick looking over tracks in river.

           Looking down the Paluxy River where the tracks were found in the 1930's.