I finished up my tour of hosting at Stephan F Austin State Park and decided to retire (?) for a while and enjoy life. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department started a geocaching event called the TxGCC – Texas GeoCache Challenge and I decided it would be fun to try to get the prize (a commemorative coin) in both the Houston and Dallas areas of the TPWD. This involves going to 23 of the state parks and finding the cache answering a question and punching a passport. I have at this moment completed 21 of the parks caches and tomorrow I will be doing the final 2. I will then head toward Cathy’s house in Oklahoma and try to get to the property between the storms.
I did do a few other things, other than geocaching, that I can tell you. My great grandson Tony Ingurgio made his first communion on May first. That evening we all went to a park to celebrate my granddaughter, Sara Marlatt’s 30th birthday. Wow, are my grandkids getting old – how can this be? Last week I went to my granddaughter Emily’s school for a dance performance. She was the leader of her dance team and did a solo performance as well as taking part in several of the group dances. They did real well and the school recognized her and two others who are graduating for their outstanding participation this year.
Yesterday I visited my son Gary in prison at the Choice Moore Transfer facility. He is doing fine but would sure like to know when they plan to release him. He had his parole hearing, but has heard nothing about the results yet. Cathy and Michelle plan to visit him on the 29th or 30th of this month, when we go down to Arlington for granddaughter Emily’s graduation.
Today I visited with Joe and Betty Culling in Bonham. They were some of the first people I met when I came to Texas and we had a great time reliving some of the old experiences and sharing our current family news.
The geocaching trip has gone well except for two blown tires on the Casita which slowed me down a little. Here are the State Parks that I visited in the order of their visit: San Jacinto Battleground, Battleship Texas, Village Creek, Martin Dies, Livingston, Huntsville, Sheldon Lake, Galveston Island, Brazos Bend, Lake Texana, Stephan F Austin, Dinosaur Valley, Lake Mineral Wells, Cedar Hill, Lake Towakoni, Purtis Creek, Tyler, Daingerfield, Coopers Lake (2units). Bonham, and tomorrow the 2 units at Ray Roberts Lake. I did take a few pictures -
