Cut N Shoot RV Park

Cut and shoot, TX

We decided to avoid traveling through Houston by routing north a bit and the obvious town to pass through was Conroe, TX.  The first place we tried to book was full so we started looking at options and  chose this RV park over the more expensive KOA.  Amy didn’t realize when booking the park that the town was also named Cut And Shoot, albeit with “and” spelled out vs. ‘N’.  This is a small rustic park, where most of the sites are occupied by full time residents in relatively old (>10 yrs) rigs.  People do seem nice as we did talk to a few neighbors but weather kept our activities to a minimum.

It was pretty decent the day we moved in, so we took a drive into Conroe to buy a camera strap for the Nikon D300 (Dan’s older camera) so Amy could start participating in the photography.  Maybe we now have to credit the photographer for our posted pictures!  We will at least cite those pictures taken by Amy and you can assume the others were taken by Dan.  The new day, we headed north a bit to Huntsville State Park where Amy could start learning to use the DSLR and get some hiking in.  As we approached the park at around 11:00 AM, we learned that they were closed for squirrel hunting.  The hunt was to end at noon but they told us it would take 30 minutes to get the hunters out, so we needed to kill about 90 minutes.  We had seen a sign for the Sam Houston Statue Visitor Center when we got off Interstate 45, so we figured we would check that out.  Boy, did we luck out!  As we entered the relatively small establishment (for such a large statue!) we were asked if we were there for the open house.  We promptly said “What open house?”,  answering their question with a question.  It turns out they had live entertainment provided by the Huntsville HS Jazz band and were serving free lunch to everyone.  The music was very good and the food was much better than the peanut butter sandwiches that we had packed for the hike.

We hung out at the visitors center long enough for the park to reopen for hikers.  However, as we headed back to the park,  it began to rain as winter storm Diego made its way into the area.  We opted to skip the park and head back to our RV.  We spend the afternoon looking at potential places to stay as we leave Spring Branch in a little over a week and head to Quartzsite for the big RV gathering.  As evening approached, we left the RV to head to a local brewery called B52 Brewing Company.  It was a very nice place that would be awesome in warmer weather during the afternoon.  They have a few acres of wooded land with picnic tables, an outdoor bar and huge fire pit.  The place is probably hopping on a nice summer Saturday afternoon.  We did happen to hit them on trivia night so we decided to join in the fun.  The place wasn’t very busy and there were only 4 teams participating with the first 3 places winning prize money in the form of B52 Bucks (ie. must be spent there).  We came in second place!  First place was a team of 4 people so we feel somewhat redeemed.  We used our $15 winnings to buy a couple bottles of their very yummy barrel aged stout called Stratofortress, the official name of the B-52 bomber, according the bartender.

Friday was, literally, a complete wash out.  We through winter storm Diego but, since we were south of the cold line, we got all rain.  Looking at totals for nearby regions, like Houston, we probably got 4-6″ of rain!  The good news is that initial inspections don’t show any sign of water getting into the RV underbelly.  It’s too muddy to crawl underneath for a thorough inspection but it would be pretty obvious if the problem was still there.  If a rain storm this heavy did not produce the problem then we are likely in good shape now.