25th February 2023
We moved 213 miles west to Ray Roberts Lake State Park, Johnson Branch where we stayed for two weeks in a very spacious pull through site. We stopped at our first Buc-ee's which is a famous travel stop/gas station and it's own experience. They are huge, with one in New Braunfels Texas being the world's largest convenience store at 66,335 square feet! They are now building one in Luling, Texas near Houston that will be 75,000 square feet and will have 120 fueling stations. When we have seen rv you tubers visit a Buc-ee's they never seem to have a problem going there but the one we visited had signs saying no trucks and we couldn't find any official rv parking place so we made our own up using eleven car spaces! They have some great snacks and you could spend ages looking at all the souvenirs and knick-knacks.
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| Pull through site was very large but very exposed |
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On Sunday we took a drive north to the town of Gainesville but being Sunday it was all closed, so we continued up the highway a few miles into Oklahoma and ticked off another state.
We stopped to look at the worlds largest casino, Winstar, which was just on the edge of highway I35. That would be a great quiz question, where is the largest casino in the world? I'm sure you would guess at Las Vegas first then maybe Dubai or Asia, last guess would be Oklahoma.
https://www.winstar.com/videos/experience-the-worlds-biggest-casino/
It was gigantic, had it's own inner road system, massive parking lots, hotels, golf course and rv park. Would have been fun (and maybe a bit dangerous to the bank account) to have gone in and looked around but we had Morgan with us and she was not very well that day.
To make up for not going into the casino we stopped to get some fried pies. If you are a regular reader and have a good memory you will remember we experienced our first fried pie at our first stop, Burnt Cabins, Pennsylvania. Arbuckle Mountain store was next to a gas station on the edge of I35and looked liked it had been around a while and if it was not for it's reputation we probably would not have stopped but glad we did as they were very good. Lemon for John and pecan for me. If you are English or Geordie you will say pee-can, if you are American you will say per-carn. Either way you say it they were very tasty.
https://www.arbucklemountainfriedpies.com
Ray Roberts park is set on a 29,000 acre lake and has 2 camp areas.
https://tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/ray-roberts-lake
The campsite was pretty full each weekend but during the week it felt like we had the place to ourselves.
There was a concrete trail that went through the park for over three miles and was an easy walk but not as fun as being off in the woods. There were also Dorba trails which were open or closed depending on weather, these are for cyclists.
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| Easy walking but bit boring |
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