Bugscuffle

 

I'll get to the title of this blog much later, but, yes, it is a place in east Texas. Below is our favorite view of the highway anywhere in North America ... two lane, trees, flowers, farms, livestock, and no interstate highway.

 

We left Bryan and headed northeast up Highway 21 toward Shreveport. It was about a 235 mile run at about 9 miles per gallon ... quarter tank used, not bad.

 



Around lunch time we look for a place to land the Flying Scotsman to have a bite and saw a picnic area on the road near Crockett. The navigator said where the F*** is Crockett and I don't see a place to stop anywhere near.

Actually there was a nice, and very quiet, old style Texas roadside park area near Crockett and we stopped and had a nice lunch there. These are the 1940's style parks and still well cared for on all the older secondary roads.

As I said we love the two lane roads across this country and yet the pic below shows some of the problems you might encounter on them. However, a short break while we watched the crew remove the fallen tree was great. The guy sitting in the bed of the truck is controlling an arm to grasp the limb and hoist it off the road to be cut up ... modern solution to an old problem.

Our destination ended up to be Barksdale Air Force Base just east of Shreveport. The reason for Barksdale is the Strategic Command and it's B-52 bomber fleet. Pretty impressive display of nuclear bombers sitting on the ramp on alert and ready for takeoff at a moment's notice.

The Famcamp on base was convenient and for $16 a deal ... concrete pad and 50 amp power ... can't ask for more ... well ... we had to counsel Bandit not to stray too near the bayou ...

OK the Bugscuffle part. On highway 84 shortly after Crockett we passed through the place with the name above. It is a real place in eastern Texas but I really need to do some research to find our the history of the name ... again, you wouldn't see this on the Interstate.

Tomorrow we'll try to make Memphis and the Navy base there. It's about 335 miles which would press our humor limit so we'll see but the base is nice and we have stayed there many times before.