Rolling G RV Park

Proud Aunt share.

This young lady is the President of the Children of the Republic of Texas (CRT). She made the quilt hanging on the wall & is selling chances at each DRT District workshop in order to raise money for her President’s Project. Her project? Giving history books to school libraries in Texas.❤️

February 17, 1836
General Jose Urrea with a force of 550 cavalry crosses into Texas following the gulf coast towards Agua Dulce, Refugio & Goliad.

The Texas Quote of the Day:

"I have already said that we went naked through this country [ either the the Texas Hill Country or the brush Brasada region closer to the border]; not being accustomed to going so, we shed our skins twice a year like snakes. The sun and air raised great, painful sores on our chests and shoulders, and our heavy loads caused the cords to cut our arms. The region is so overgrown that often, when we gathered wood, blood flowed from us in many places where the thorns and shrubs tore our flesh."

------ Cabeza De Vaca, "Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America," 1533. I am rereading Cabeza's account of his adventures in Texas roughly 500 years ago and am still convinced that he was the toughest man who ever lived

Apropos of nothing, here's a great geology map of Texas, courtesy the Bureau of Economic Geology What I love is being able to visually see how profoundly the underlying geology, the rock, impacts and informs what I see on the surface of this state that by now I know so well. The volcanic rock near Castolon in Big Bend? That's the Oligocene and Eocene undivided (OE) (volcanic rocks and conglomerates) .