After a quick stop at Walmart to pick up a few things, we headed out to Davis Mountain, passing through Pecos, TX (Home of the famous Judge Roy Bean courtroom), arriving at the State Park around 2:30. After buying a Texas State Park Annual Pass and paying for our camping through Thursday morning, we drove down to the dump and filled up with potable water at a nearby site, then headed across the road to the primitive equestrian area, which had a locked gate. There truly are no facilities for horses, except a water trough that had apparently just been fixed today (I'm glad we didn't head down here last Friday like we had originally planned!), but managed to string a highline between a couple of tall evergreen bushes (or low trees, depending on how you want to look at it :-). Then we made a horrifying discovery. The entire field where we were parked was infested with the nastiest, prickliest burrs we have ever encountered. Whereas the burrs in Colorado could cling like crazy, they were soft, though almost impossible to get off. The ones in New Mexico were prickly, but they stayed in one piece when you flicked them off. These.... these are not only as sharp as a ball of needles, when you try to remove them the point breaks off and become like slivers, and the only way to get 8hem out of your skin is with tweezers! The dogs were paralyzed within steps when we let them out, and we couldn't believe how terribly painful these little things are! We had to use gloves to pull them off their feet, until we found our little rubber brush, which whisks them away fairly easily, at least off clothes and shoes and dog feet. We're SO glad we only paid through Thursday morning (though Hubby had originally wanted to stay longer, but was glad afterward I talked him out of it), and would probably leave earlier if we hadn't paid through then. I hope it's not like this at our next stop, Big Bend, or it's going to be a very short stay there as well!Monday, December 6, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010 - Travel Day to Davis Mountain State Park
After a quick stop at Walmart to pick up a few things, we headed out to Davis Mountain, passing through Pecos, TX (Home of the famous Judge Roy Bean courtroom), arriving at the State Park around 2:30. After buying a Texas State Park Annual Pass and paying for our camping through Thursday morning, we drove down to the dump and filled up with potable water at a nearby site, then headed across the road to the primitive equestrian area, which had a locked gate. There truly are no facilities for horses, except a water trough that had apparently just been fixed today (I'm glad we didn't head down here last Friday like we had originally planned!), but managed to string a highline between a couple of tall evergreen bushes (or low trees, depending on how you want to look at it :-). Then we made a horrifying discovery. The entire field where we were parked was infested with the nastiest, prickliest burrs we have ever encountered. Whereas the burrs in Colorado could cling like crazy, they were soft, though almost impossible to get off. The ones in New Mexico were prickly, but they stayed in one piece when you flicked them off. These.... these are not only as sharp as a ball of needles, when you try to remove them the point breaks off and become like slivers, and the only way to get 8hem out of your skin is with tweezers! The dogs were paralyzed within steps when we let them out, and we couldn't believe how terribly painful these little things are! We had to use gloves to pull them off their feet, until we found our little rubber brush, which whisks them away fairly easily, at least off clothes and shoes and dog feet. We're SO glad we only paid through Thursday morning (though Hubby had originally wanted to stay longer, but was glad afterward I talked him out of it), and would probably leave earlier if we hadn't paid through then. I hope it's not like this at our next stop, Big Bend, or it's going to be a very short stay there as well!
