Arriving at Fort Davis and Davis Mountain State Park

We arrived today at the west Texas town of Fort Davis, where we bought groceries and walked around town for a bit. Then we moved on to Davis Mountain State Park, where we had reserved a campsite. When we arrived at the state park, there were already 8 rigs lined up to register. Before we were done registering, there were rigs backed up out onto the highway.
The state park was created in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps in a fairly steep canyon. The walls of the canyon are exposed igneous rock from volcanic activity that formed the Davis Mountains over 25 million years ago.

We had a little excitement while unhitching and setting up camp. After moving the rig into place, we noticed that a post was going to be in the way of one of the slides. We decided to move the rig forward a few feet, pulled up the landing gear, removed the chocks, and drove the truck forward—forgetting that we had already opened the jaws of the hitch. As the truck moved forward, the trailer slid down the hitch and landed on the rails of the bed of the truck. Fortunately, there was no damage beyond a very slight abrasion of the truck’s rail covers and a crack in the plastic part of one of the tie-downs. We had read that it's not a matter of if but when you will drop your trailer on your truck. Guess we got that one out of the way early. We're lucky we have a very tough truck and were moving very slowly.

The campground's best sites are its full hookup sites. We had a site with water and electricity but no sewer connection. We realized that sites like this are all back-in sites designed for motorhomes that could drive into the sites front-first. For 5^th-wheel trailers this puts the picnic table and useful living space on the wrong side of the rig. Oh, well!

Two mule deer walked through the edge of our campsite while we were eating dinner. They were having their dinner, too—munching on tree leaves as they went by.

Since the campground is in a rather deep valley, we had no cell phone service, which also meant no internet connection, since the Sprint modem depends on the Sprint network.