Sorry , Crockett died in1836 at the Alamo. He was defeated in his Congressional run by allies of Andrew Jackson. Crockett was against the expulsion of the Cherokee. He said Tennessee could go to Hell and he would go to Texas. 1875 was during the Red River War.
Great video! It's nice to see the small towns along the way that we don't always get a chance to visit. Just in case anyone is confused, the David Crockett of Texas history died March 6, 1836 at the Alamo. Crockett County was formed in 1875 and named in honor of David Crockett.
I stopped in Junction one evening just for fuel and ended up writing a song about it, called “Junction, Texas Friday Night.” It’s going on an album I’m working on getting out this winter. Cool little town!
Good Morning Eric Tara and Opie Welcome to Texas... nice to see you enjoying the outdoors and having fun. With your furbabies. Thats a good place to stay by the river awesome 👌. Free camping 🏕 😀.. happy to see you are going home to enjoy your holidays with your family 👪 😊 very important to spend time together.. give Tara and Opie a hug 🤗 stay safe out there on the roads 😊 Take care God bless you Eric everywhere you go 😊 thanks again for taking us along with you everywhere you go. We appreciate it. Your friends Gerry and Pat from Amarillo Texas 🐱🐱
Squawteat Peak reminds me of another, similar place that an online, US friend posted old pics of. She said everyone there called it "Molly's Nipple"... I asked, but she had no idea who Molly was. 😅
Texas A&M University used to hold their football preseason camp in Junction. The campus there (a few classrooms and some cabins) is now part of Texas Tech University system.
We love staying at Pecan Valley RV Park. It's on the frontage road on the west side of I10 and a few miles north of Junction Texas, but considered in Junction Texas. It's a great quiet campground, and they feed the deer in the morning and afternoon, so you get to watch them graze around you.
We take trips from Houston to Big Bend NP at least once a year. These videos along I-10 are so familiar and appreciated. If only it was that time again for another trip out there. The rest areas are always nice here. If we see ya passing through H-town we’ll give ya a wave 👋
What a nice campsite with an incredible view. You lucked out and found some potable water. Yeah, I agree with you. You should run your generator once a month under load. I run my generator every 1-1 1/2 months. I run both heat pumps, small heater and I charge my Bluetti(s). Generator always starts up with no problems. It's cool that you can run off grid without using your generator. I would like to get solar one day. I've been loving your videos for 8 years and I love them even more today. Hug the kitties for me. I wish you safe and enjoyable travels.
Wow, beautiful freeee campsite and SCORE on the free dump and water too, you were so excited 😄 Saves you a trip looking for dump station. PS- Gas still over $5 here in California, ridiculous! 😭
@Jurassic Porkchop don't forget to check off places on either side of IH 10 in addition to that park in Junction. We have lots of neat places in the Texas Hill Country that you can day trip to, especially if you can find an inexpensive or free campsite somewhere. You might want to look into a State Park pass. After Junction you could camp out at Schreiner State Park here in Kerrville and day trip to Junction, Llano/Enchanted Rock, Fredericksburg with the Admiral Nimitz Pacific War Museum, Bandera, Camp Verde-The Camel Capital of Texas, Boerne, and of course, San Antonio.
We were at that park a few years ago. There was a geocache near that spot you were in. Junction also has a very nice State Park that great for birdwatching.
Welcome to Texas I live in Austin Tx. Hope your enjoying Texas that was a very cool camping site with lights in the tress! Safe travel to S,A. / You should check out some cool places to take the R, V. to in Austin and free camping too! If you need a guide, I can help. 100% / Cheers / Chris- I have always enjoyed your channel many years now! Take care
😍 great video. Awesome Park. 💖 love the lights in the trees! Made me 😁 smile too! And you always make me feel good. You and the kitties take care & stay safe 🥰.
That's interesting, I have never seen a Dollar Tree and Family Dollar together like that. Awesome free campsite, I'm surprised that, that campground wasn't full with all of those great amenities, I was very surprised to see those lights in the trees, that really appears to be an awesome find Eric👍 Definitely quite an upgrade from staying in a rest area👍🙂
Honestly. No one alive today could survive in 1875 if they were to go back to that time and try to live. It was a harder time to live and you had to be a true murderer to survive. It wasn't happy go lucky lazy times, you had to fight, defend and kill to maintain a stable life. Everyone had to be be a bandit. Everyone had to be a murderer. There was no law to speak of. But back in the 1870s, when you had to carry out your own justice on people, and you couldn't live like you do now, being a nomad, without some serious gun skills because you would always be a target for the local bandits seeing you coming. Even the women had to have serious gun skills. You would be spending most of your day tending farm getting ready for winter, growing your crops and your animals and and keeping farm. Go out to rural Kentucky and other landlocked states and see how the small personal homesteads are being ran today, that is how you would have to survive. I don't think you would enjoy that lifestyle one bit.
Inside the Crocket Texas County Courthouse is beautiful! In between Junction and Ozona is Caverns of Sonora. On the way to Houston: 11th Street Cowboy Bar Bandera Texas ( They have real cowboys stop there and tie up their horses to the Hitching Post) Trail Boss Steak and Grill Bandera Texas (The best Chicken Fried Steak I ever had!) Mary's Tacos 518 E Blanco Rd, Boerne, TX 78006 (They have some awesome Taco) You want to know more, you know how to get ahold of me. 😎 Awesome Video!
You’re gonna need that generator buddy. Arizona has a monsoon season during the summer snd, believe it or not, it rains a lot. On those days there won’t be much solar. Last summer I had to go out and buy a portable generator it was so many sunless days.
Don't forget Bandera Texas. Has a skull and horns as big as a large 5th Wheel . Near a campgrounds. Take 16 north about 35 miles You will be in Bandera.. when you get at the red-light Take a left and it lill be on left. If you cross Medina river And you see a tractor supply on Your right You went to far. That's Quirky.(?)
Schreiner Park Junction, Texas. After a major floor, the city had to fix things up. I guess my favorite place to park by the river is no longer allowed.
I edited out the other monument in the park dated 1875, so that's where the confusing comes from when I randomly left in that clip. There is a Texas State Ranger monument/plaque established 1875 in the park along with the Crockett and family statue.
I agree with the statement about Texas rest areas, with one caveat, unless posted otherwise. There are something like 4 or 5 rest areas where it isn't allowed as of the last time I checked. That's because of some serious problems. It only takes a few idiots to ruin it for everyone.
ERIC TARA AND OPIE I HAVE TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO THOSE LIGHTS IN THAT CAMPSITE WERE BEAUTIFUL. BE SAFE IN YOUR JOURNEY AND HAVE FUN AS ALWAYS. 👋👋👋 ❤️😺❤️😺
Thanks for heading me 'home' org from Houston and have travelled the state extensively. There are so many interesting places to go to.. I left in 93 but go back every other year. Travel Safely
Another great video! Nice Opie shot at the start and noticed how many times you looked back at the broken latch door with Opie looking out to check that he would not open the door!
Thanks for taking us around. - Banquet TV Dinner? Maybe Ok. I prefer the Hungry Man salisbury one... from Walmart. No it's not a fine-dining meal.. but pretty good for the price.
I remember that drive from El Paso to San Antonio years ago when we drove up on our way to South Texas. Another FLAT place, but that’s another story! 😜 I was so tired of the flat terrain! My eyes CRAVED a hill, tree, bump in the road, ANYTHING to break up the monotony! 😅
Get the Boston Market salisbury steaks with the mac & cheese. I normally get the Boston market or Marie Callender's which ever is on sale. The only Banquet dinner that I buy anymore is the barbecued pork dinner. It has a pressed pork patty reminiscent of the McDonald's McRib sandwich.
Get your self some Marie Callender's TV dinners. They are pretty good. My dog won't even eat the Banquet tv dinners. They are terrible. Give the kitties lots of loves and treats.
Opie cam is activated! Who needs a dashcam? I got you covered Dad! Let's roll!
Texas does rest stops right. Glad you found that little gem of a campground.
Sorry , Crockett died in1836 at the Alamo. He was defeated in his Congressional run by allies of Andrew Jackson. Crockett was against the expulsion of the Cherokee. He said Tennessee could go to Hell and he would go to Texas. 1875 was during the Red River War.
Great video! It's nice to see the small towns along the way that we don't always get a chance to visit.
Just in case anyone is confused, the David Crockett of Texas history died March 6, 1836 at the Alamo.
Crockett County was formed in 1875 and named in honor of David Crockett.
I stopped in Junction one evening just for fuel and ended up writing a song about it, called “Junction, Texas Friday Night.” It’s going on an album I’m working on getting out this winter. Cool little town!
Good Morning Eric Tara and Opie Welcome to Texas... nice to see you enjoying the outdoors and having fun. With your furbabies. Thats a good place to stay by the river awesome 👌. Free camping 🏕 😀.. happy to see you are going home to enjoy your holidays with your family 👪 😊 very important to spend time together.. give Tara and Opie a hug 🤗 stay safe out there on the roads 😊 Take care God bless you Eric everywhere you go 😊 thanks again for taking us along with you everywhere you go. We appreciate it. Your friends Gerry and Pat from Amarillo Texas 🐱🐱
I have been by Squawteat Peak hundreds of times on my way to West Texas. Even have a cap sold at the Chevron station.
I'm always fascinated by the difference between each state and how nice or not so nice they are
Squawteat Peak reminds me of another, similar place that an online, US friend posted old pics of. She said everyone there called it "Molly's Nipple"... I asked, but she had no idea who Molly was. 😅
Texas A&M University used to hold their football preseason camp in Junction. The campus there (a few classrooms and some cabins) is now part of Texas Tech University system.
"The Junction Boys". A great book.
No wonder why so many people move to Texas it’s really nice
We love staying at Pecan Valley RV Park. It's on the frontage road on the west side of I10 and a few miles north of Junction Texas, but considered in Junction Texas. It's a great quiet campground, and they feed the deer in the morning and afternoon, so you get to watch them graze around you.
We take trips from Houston to Big Bend NP at least once a year. These videos along I-10 are so familiar and appreciated. If only it was that time again for another trip out there. The rest areas are always nice here. If we see ya passing through H-town we’ll give ya a wave 👋
What a nice campsite with an incredible view. You lucked out and found some potable water. Yeah, I agree with you. You should run your generator once a month under load. I run my generator every 1-1 1/2 months. I run both heat pumps, small heater and I charge my Bluetti(s). Generator always starts up with no problems. It's cool that you can run off grid without using your generator. I would like to get solar one day. I've been loving your videos for 8 years and I love them even more today. Hug the kitties for me. I wish you safe and enjoyable travels.
Thanks for showing highway 10 and free camping in Texas!!!
Davy Crockett died in 1836 at the Battle of the Alamo. Not sure where you got 1875 from.
Yes! He was captured along with a few others and they were all bayonetted to death.
Oh I didn't even catch that. I edited out the part about the 1875 monument plaque but left in my talk about 1875. lol.
You have to give it to Texas, the rest stops are beautiful and the bathrooms in the larger rest stops are spacious .
Wow, beautiful freeee campsite and SCORE on the free dump and water too, you were so excited 😄 Saves you a trip looking for dump station.
PS- Gas still over $5 here in California, ridiculous! 😭
Nice music, Eric. Beautiful campground too. Texas knows how to do it.
Glad the city park is open for camping... last winter I rolled through there it was closed to camping
What an awesome place to camp at for FREE. Junction is a place I will now check out in my RV travels. Good video.
@Jurassic Porkchop don't forget to check off places on either side of IH 10 in addition to that park in Junction. We have lots of neat places in the Texas Hill Country that you can day trip to, especially if you can find an inexpensive or free campsite somewhere. You might want to look into a State Park pass. After Junction you could camp out at Schreiner State Park here in Kerrville and day trip to Junction, Llano/Enchanted Rock, Fredericksburg with the Admiral Nimitz Pacific War Museum, Bandera, Camp Verde-The Camel Capital of Texas, Boerne, and of course, San Antonio.
Best burger I ever ate is at Junction Burger Company. It is a must when staying in Junction Texas!
Love the antler Christmas tree and year round Christmas lights.
West Texas is just beautiful. Always love driving through there. Texas quirky is the best quirky. 😊
We parked there it's the Llano River. Where Matthew McConaughey grew up around Ulvade TX. Large river.
I was screaming at the screen "Don't eat that Eric, DO NOT eat that!" U must have heard me!
That antler tree reminds me of the antler arch in Jackson Hole
"HOWDY !!" 🥳
From Pipe Creek, Bandera County, Texas!! 👍
Yee Haw!
Glad you're enjoying my state!
We were at that park a few years ago. There was a geocache near that spot you were in. Junction also has a very nice State Park that great for birdwatching.
Way to go Texas. Tree lights/free camping bonus !!!
we have some cool Davy Crockett history here in East Tennessee also
You could go back to 1875 and be a cat herder with a cat ranch
Welcome to Texas I live in Austin Tx. Hope your enjoying Texas that was a very cool camping site with lights in the tress! Safe travel to S,A. / You should check out some cool places to take the R, V. to in Austin and free camping too! If you need a guide, I can help. 100% / Cheers / Chris- I have always enjoyed your channel many years now! Take care
Meow meow Tara and Opie and yes hello to Eric
That free camping spot was awesome. Loved those lights for sure
Yup, we stayed there 2 nights last year. Great little town also. Highly recommend it. Police patrol it also.
Score! Nice camp ground, scenery & cool things. Thank you! Save travels for you & the kitties. Aloha!
Squawteat Peak is on my uncles ranch. Great view from the top.
😍 great video. Awesome Park. 💖 love the lights in the trees! Made me 😁 smile too! And you always make me feel good. You and the kitties take care & stay safe 🥰.
You should see that park at Christmas time, it’s fantastic
Thank you Eric! Great shot of the park and lights !! Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmass!
My Dad showed me that mountain(Sqawtit) when I was four yrs old and am now going on 79…..Every time I’ve traveled by it reminds me of that.
That's interesting, I have never seen a Dollar Tree and Family Dollar together like that.
Awesome free campsite, I'm surprised that, that campground wasn't full with all of those great amenities, I was very surprised to see those lights in the trees, that really appears to be an awesome find Eric👍
Definitely quite an upgrade from staying in a rest area👍🙂
Dollar Tree bought out Family Dollar. The new store here has both names on the sign out front.
Hey Eric, remember to start and run your generator under a load soon, just in case you need it. (Just doing what you told me to do sir.)😁
Cool, thanks
What type of kitty is Opie?. I sure love his fur. Great videos...
I’m not sure actually. We should get him a DNA test and find out.
Thank you for another awesome video Eric
Just wow on the lights made me smile too ☺️ xoxo Opie and Terra
Be careful touching those beads, you don't know where they've been
Marie calendar meals are much better than banquet!!!
Honestly. No one alive today could survive in 1875 if they were to go back to that time and try to live. It was a harder time to live and you had to be a true murderer to survive. It wasn't happy go lucky lazy times, you had to fight, defend and kill to maintain a stable life. Everyone had to be be a bandit. Everyone had to be a murderer. There was no law to speak of. But back in the 1870s, when you had to carry out your own justice on people, and you couldn't live like you do now, being a nomad, without some serious gun skills because you would always be a target for the local bandits seeing you coming. Even the women had to have serious gun skills. You would be spending most of your day tending farm getting ready for winter, growing your crops and your animals and and keeping farm. Go out to rural Kentucky and other landlocked states and see how the small personal homesteads are being ran today, that is how you would have to survive. I don't think you would enjoy that lifestyle one bit.
You certainly scored on that camp site.
WELL YEE HAW, WELLCOME BACK TO TEXAS PAHDNUH!
💕👍🙏 From Huntington Beach California
Piolet Mountain here in North Carolina looks like a Big Boob too.
MORE KITTY BELL ERIC!!!!
Inside the Crocket Texas County Courthouse is beautiful! In between Junction and Ozona is Caverns of Sonora.
On the way to Houston:
11th Street Cowboy Bar Bandera Texas ( They have real cowboys stop there and tie up their horses to the Hitching Post)
Trail Boss Steak and Grill Bandera Texas (The best Chicken Fried Steak I ever had!)
Mary's Tacos 518 E Blanco Rd, Boerne, TX 78006 (They have some awesome Taco)
You want to know more, you know how to get ahold of me. 😎
Awesome Video!
Hi Eric, YOU really scored with that delightful camp ground and the food! Have a great night. See you next time. Hugs, Louise
You’re gonna need that generator buddy. Arizona has a monsoon season during the summer snd, believe it or not, it rains a lot. On those days there won’t be much solar. Last summer I had to go out and buy a portable generator it was so many sunless days.
Don't forget Bandera Texas.
Has a skull and horns as big as a large 5th Wheel .
Near a campgrounds.
Take 16 north about 35 miles
You will be in Bandera.. when you get at the red-light Take a left and it lill be on left.
If you cross Medina river
And you see a tractor supply on
Your right You went to far.
That's Quirky.(?)
I forgot to tell you.
Take 16 off 1604
Schreiner Park Junction, Texas. After a major floor, the city had to fix things up. I guess my favorite place to park by the river is no longer allowed.
Great video! That was a neat free camping spot you found. Safe travels!
What was the 1875 date about, at 2:38? When the county was formed? Crockett died at The Alamo in 1836. Enjoying your trip through my state of Texas!
I edited out the other monument in the park dated 1875, so that's where the confusing comes from when I randomly left in that clip. There is a Texas State Ranger monument/plaque established 1875 in the park along with the Crockett and family statue.
@@nomadicfanatic Ah, thanks! Keep the kitties warm. Looks like it will be cool all week!
I live in Texas love it here.
GOOD MORNING BEAST NOMADIC FANTASTIC ERIC JAX UA-cam VIDEO 🐈🐈
I have a cousin in Junction so I camp in the park when visiting or just passing thru
Yes I am mushy. Love you guy's Eric .
Always like your Texas runs. Seems very RV friendly.
Me too! The Old West! ❤️
I agree with the statement about Texas rest areas, with one caveat, unless posted otherwise. There are something like 4 or 5 rest areas where it isn't allowed as of the last time I checked. That's because of some serious problems. It only takes a few idiots to ruin it for everyone.
You missed a famous BBQ restaurant in Junction called Coopers.
ERIC TARA AND OPIE I HAVE TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO THOSE LIGHTS IN THAT CAMPSITE WERE BEAUTIFUL. BE SAFE IN YOUR JOURNEY AND HAVE FUN AS ALWAYS. 👋👋👋
❤️😺❤️😺
What an awesome campground! Great video!
Good video. You were south of me when stopped at Ozona. I’m at San Angelo. Junction has a lazy tubing river.
Yes you need to do your generator under a load every 2 weeks to keep it "learned". That's a technical term!
Awesome! Thank you! Several greats granddaughter!
Why did I hear Beavis and Butthead laugh when you said "boob". Uh huh huh "Boob" . . .
YeeHaw Lord do I miss Texas ❣️
Good stuff Eric thanks for letting us check it out !
Great place to stay. Beautiful lights
I love city park camping, you sure made a good score with that one. Got to put that in my memos.
Thanks for heading me 'home' org from Houston and have travelled the state extensively. There are so many interesting places to go to.. I left in 93 but go back every other year. Travel Safely
Another great video! Nice Opie shot at the start and noticed how many times you looked back at the broken latch door with Opie looking out to check that he would not open the door!
Thank you. You sure are helping me on our trio to Azorina.
PSA….go to chickasha Oklahoma to get a “leg up” 👢 on the quirky competition!! You’ll thank me later😎
I'd hug them trees... really kool idea year round
Get yourself a flux capacitor and get tater tot up to 88 mph man!!! Oh, they sell flux capacitors on Amazon I bet. Hahaha
Good morning! Thank you for the great videos as always!! Love the music in the beginning 😀
Thanks for taking us around.
- Banquet TV Dinner? Maybe Ok. I prefer the Hungry Man salisbury one... from Walmart. No it's not a fine-dining meal.. but pretty good for the price.
Score on the Dump & Water SWEET
1875 no way. Grandma requires novacaine at her dental appointments not Jack Daniels 🤷😂😍
I remember that drive from El Paso to San Antonio years ago when we drove up on our way to South Texas. Another FLAT place, but that’s another story! 😜 I was so tired of the flat terrain! My eyes CRAVED a hill, tree, bump in the road, ANYTHING to break up the monotony! 😅
Get the Boston Market salisbury steaks with the mac & cheese. I normally get the Boston market or Marie Callender's which ever is on sale. The only Banquet dinner that I buy anymore is the barbecued pork dinner. It has a pressed pork patty reminiscent of the McDonald's McRib sandwich.
If you want a free stop DM me. My family owns Rock Ridge RV, 70 miles south of San Antonio.
what a great thing with the lights!
A meal of horse meat and wallpaper paste.... LOL
Get your self some Marie Callender's TV dinners. They are pretty good.
My dog won't even eat the Banquet tv dinners. They are terrible.
Give the kitties lots of loves and treats.
Been there, done that. It's a great park to stay at!
coopers bbq in junction is the best
Great spot. Awesome video. Thanks Don