It was a short run to Texas. Anne drove about half the trip so I had a chance to really watch the scenery go by. Cotton crops and lots of grass crops (Anne has a great knowledge of crops when seen from the road). As we got closer to Texas we saw many of the old tobacco towers, sometimes standing derelict in a very large paddock, sometimes being used for other purposes. We were settled in Texas in time to beat the school kids to the main street where we did some shopping and checked out the local info centre. (I got the impression that the woman at the info centre shares very useful fishing tips with visitors – including detailed directions to proven good holes.)
Some of you may have heard the tale of Anne’s parents Hugh Patrick McCall and wife Bernie caravanning from Adelaide through Canberra and up to Darwin via Texas with a tombstone and all the ‘fittings’ in the van. The stone was for the grave of his father Hugh Patrick McCall. You can imagine the comments about Hugh being prepared to become a caravanning statistic...
Anne and I thought Hugh set it up in the Texas cemetery, so we went to visit. After a long search Anne rang her sister Trish for better info. We will visit the cemetery at Wallangarra as we head further north in a fortnight, or so.
The forecast up this way is for lots of rain over the next week so we decided to move to the RV Park at Casino and bunker down for a while and then slip down to Maitland for the important event. We will leave the van in the park while we drive down to Maitland.
Anne here...
The van park at Texas was small and basic, but clean amenities - hot showers, and a laundry with modern appliances. The town itself is typical of the outback Qld towns we have seen – spick and span clean and tidy and the houses painted and spruced up - NSW country towns suffer by comparison.
Texas has a lot to offer the history buff – the old rabbit freezing works, the tobacco and motor museums plus the regular ‘daily life in the olden times’ museum.
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