Our Mammoth Travels: Escape with a Purpose

Saturday, June 7th

We couldn't post about this trip when it happened, because the trip was to see about a potential job for Tony at Cisco ISD in Cisco, TX. We headed out on Saturday with the Mammoth to Solid Rock RV Park, located 4 miles south of Eastland, TX. The drive was essentially due west on I-20, about 3 hours away.

We opted not to take the kitties, and took my vehicle as well, since I would be returning back home the next day so I could work for a customer on-site starting Monday.

We encountered some bad traffic through Arlington, but otherwise had no issues. We arrived at Solid Rock about 3pm. We had to call the park manager so that he could meet us at the office and get checked in. We had a nice visit and talked about the park amenities: laundry, bath house, long pull through sites, low fixed monthly rate, free wifi, free cable, full hook-ups, discount green fees on the golf course located beside the park, and kayak rental on Lake Leon, launched from their beach.

We pulled into site 18, and started setting up. When we were nearly done, the park manager dropped by to make sure everything was going OK. (Very nice!) Though the gravel site needs a little leveling, overall it was very good location. Out the back window was the golf course, and out our dining room was a view of the lake!

View out the dining room windows.

We had dinner about 5pm, then we drove the car around a bit to explore some of the area and other rv parks nearby. We drove through a couple others that were in worse shape, and some even cost more than Solid Rock. None could really compare.

We also drove over to Cisco and scoped out where the school was located.

Cisco water tower

While we explored the area, we saw a road runner and later, a deer. We are definitely not the city! We were quite impressed that the area seemed to be thriving and was beautiful, lush and green, rolling hills with lots of trees -- reminiscent of the "hill country" area of Texas.

Roadrunner, just to the right of the red rock.

Deer crossed in front of us.

After we returned from exploring, the sun was setting. We got some good pics. It reminded me of when we lived in the Shores of Rockwall, in a golf-course community on Lake Ray Hubbard.