SURVIVING NATURE
FTER TWO YEARS ON the waiting list, our lottery number was drawn and we were able to land a spot in the Lone Star Corral, an Escapees Co-Op park near Hondo, Texas. We interrupted our itinerary we had planned in Southern California to drive straight to Texas with our pickup and fifth wheel, arriving in the first week of April. We were worried about spring in Texas, because we had lived in Wichita, Kansas, for a few years and knew what havoc a thunderstorm can wreak. After a couple of weeks, we moved our stored belongings from Denver, narrowly ahead of a major snowstorm, then spent a few days getting our Hondo casita organized and set up.
