Colorado River RV Park - Days 25-27

Our next stop was Colorado River RV Campground in Columbus, TX.  This is another Thousand Trails campground about 70 miles west of Houston.  We chose site D23.  It was a full hookup/30 amp site.  It was a good size site, with lots of trees for shade (which came back to haunt us when we decided we wanted to hook up the Dish for TV - yeah, that didn't happen!).  Plenty of room to put up the screen tent, too, which we needed, since there were mosquitos, being as close to the River as we were.

Shortly after we got there, I went to take the dog for a walk, and there was an armadillo just sauntering through our site.

Only time I've ever seen an armadillo was in a zoo, so that was pretty cool!

If we looked toward the back, this was our view:

And if we looked toward the front, across from us, we often saw deer.  They weren't as social as the ones at Medina Lake, so they didn't really come close, but you could watch them, especially as it got closed to evening.

Just a little ways behind our site was a boat ramp for the river.  We walked down to it to look at the river.

The restroom/shower house was a bit of a walk from our site, but the showers were clean and nice.  Last year, Hurricane Harvey totally flooded this park.  There is still a section by the river that is baracaded and blocked off, that used to be RV sites, but the bank of the river at that section was gone.  This sign is up by the bath house, which is up a small hill from the section by the river (even from where we were).

The laundry room was cute - it was in an older small cabin-like building.  There were chairs on the porch where you could wait while your laundry was washing or drying.  It was also right by the pool, so you could also swim, I guess, while you waited.

There was a small, fenced in dog park that was nice, but it was so far from our site we'd have had to drive the dog there!

We arrived on Thursday, and I worked on Friday.  I had planned to really explore the park, hike on some of the trails, maybe check out the pool, on Saturday. And they were having a pancake breakfast for on Saturday for Father's day.  However, on Friday afternoon, the door lock on the RV broke, and we got locked inside!  Well, we could get out, but had to climb over the seats to get out the doors of the truck.  We had to remove the lock from the door.  There was a Camping World in Katy, which is a little west of Houston.  I called them on Friday afternoon to see if they happened to have the lock in stock, and luckily they did, but we couldn't get there on before it closed, so we had to drive there on Saturday morning, as they were holding the part for us. It was about an hour drive each way.  By the time we got back it was too hot for hiking.  Not sure why I didn't go to the pool, probably  because I didn't want to go alone.  Instead, we did laundry (such fun!)

We did enjoy sitting in the screen room in the evenings.  It did the trick to keep the bugs away, but we could listen to all the noise that insects make!  It was really loud!  So many crickets, and I'm not even sure that else makes that noise.  Maybe cicadas?  And something else.  It seemed like there were 3 very distinct sounds.

This is another park I would love to come back to and stay a while.  I really enjoyed being here.  It was very peaceful (other than the broken lock!).

Next, off to Louisiana (to gain back any weight I had lost with all the walking)