Still at Ft. Davis, TX...

Our Casita rally starts tomorrow and lasts a week, at which time we head for Oklahoma.  Ft. Davis is quite the place for frustrations with package delivery from UPS and USPS!  Orders from Amazon are sent to Ft Davis and transferred to USPS, which doesn't deliver to the park unbeknownst to us until we get the notices that the packages have been sent back to their origin.  We go to the USPS and they say ok to general deliveries.   So we reorder everything and the post office rejects them again because they have no USPS labels on them.  Well, Amazon doesn't send out through USPS.  We go to Alpine, a few miles away, to visit the UPS office and they contact their driver and tell him to bring the packages back to the office, where we would pick up the next day...that has worked for one package so far, 2 more to go.  When we stopped by the post office in Ft. Davis on the way back to express our displeasure, we find that there is a special way to indicate on the UPS label to redirect the package to the park's PO Box.  Well, now we have resolved the mystery.  On the way out the post office clerk asks for our name and after giving it, she says "oh, wait a minute".  She then brings out a package for us that was identified as returned to its origin.  The previous clerk had intercepted and stored it after our first visit there.  We're thankful for that but if we had not stopped to express our displeasure, I reckon that package would had been there for quite some time.   Hopefully UPS will have our remaining 2 packages when we visit them again on Monday.  We have to go all the way to Alpine since no-one answers the phone as the one, very kind and helpful, person is by himself and is pretty busy.  WE WILL NOT ORDER ANYTHING HERE AGAIN.....here ends my rant!

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On a good note, we are surrounded by beautiful views and friendly people.  There are several trails, carved out by the Civilian Conservation Corps back in the 1930's and early 40's.  I really didn't know the history surrounding the CCC until we watched a documentary on them at the campground's interpretive center.  Without getting too political, I think that documentary should be required watching at the early high school level AND by all who serve as elected officials!  The documentary we watched is from the PBS American Experience Series and is entitled The Civilian Conservation Corps.

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So now back to the fun stuff...
We have hiked a lot of miles this week and met many people.  We can't wait for the rally to start and reacquaint with old friends and play a little music!  Yay!!
​Here are some of the pictures we took this week.

Wendy spotted this roadrunner, pretty cool!

Last night we had another visitor, this one was welcome.  We were cooking out late and this mule deer came strolling out and put its nose on Wendy's hand.  I suspect its used to being fed.  We couldn't give her any food...against park rules, but we did give her a bowl of water.  This was way cool!