Sam Houston

 3/6- Cagle Campground Sam Houston National Forest

   As we drive further north the Texas landscape changes once again. This time we drive by ranches. These are ranches with cows not just acres of scrub brush. We are seeing a lot more cows and baby calves today. The grass is actually green and the trees are way taller than I am. There is even water in the creeks and rivers. 

   Camp for the night is a National Forest recreation area. It is in the Sam Houston NF and is on the shores of a big lake. The Cagle campground is a wonderful spot with tall Ponderosa Pines or Douglas firs ( I can never remember which is which) towering overhead. The sites are very spread out and they even have electricity and water. All this for $10! 

     We took a nice hike and then for the first time this trip we built a campfire. Fires have been banned in most of the sites up until now and even when allowed you have to buy wood. The ranger here told me to burn whatever I could find in the woods. They do have a lot of dead branches down all over the place. We got a fire going and then cooked supper on the flames of the pine logs. 

   The weather is much cooler up here and we may need to run the heater in the morning. We’ll see. 

   Again very little cell phone reception in here so this will get uploaded tomorrow morning if it doesn’t jet off in the middle of the night. The stop tomorrow is bound to be the same as it is another wilderness area. 

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