Posts From The Road: Christmas Campers In Abilene

Scene of Christmas weekend a couple of years ago at Abilene State Park during which folks take their camper out, decorate it for Christmas, and have a good time. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Scene of Christmas weekend at Abilene State Park in Texas. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

By GARY WARREN
Photographer
Formerly of Los Alamos

Merry Christmas! It’s hard to believe that it is Christmas week of 2020. A year when almost everything in life has been canceled, altered beyond recognition, or happened virtually on the computer, I think we are all ready to put 2020 to rest.

We are usually traveling around during the holidays but this year we will celebrate at home. Hopefully, we will be traveling to Texas in January to visit with Marilyn’s parents and other family, but we have chosen to wait until the holiday rush has tapered off before hitting the road again.

While traveling in December a couple of years ago, we stopped for the night at Abilene State Park. Christmas Day was still several days away but it was Christmas weekend at Abilene State Park. 

The campground was almost full, which is not common even in a warmer climate just a few days before Christmas. Almost all of the campers were local to that area of Texas and this was their weekend to take the camper out, decorate for Christmas, and have a good time. We felt like the Christmas Scrooge when we parked and didn’t have decorations for our campsite, but all was fine.

We joined in as the campers spent the evening walking through the campground admiring everyone’s campsite and decorations. There were cookies, candy canes, and hot chocolate to enjoy while casually touring the campground.

We had no idea anything like this was planned when we stopped in for the night. However, we thoroughly enjoyed walking the area and viewing the decorations and meeting a few of the locals. It is the unexpected surprises like this that make RV travel so special.

All of the photos included were taken that evening while we enjoyed walking through the campground and enjoying our early Christmas at Abilene State Park.

Editor’s note: Longtime Los Alamos photographer Gary Warren and his wife Marilyn are traveling around the country and he shares his photographs, which appear in the ‘Posts from the Road’ series published in the Sunday edition of the Los Alamos Daily Post.

Scene of Christmas weekend at Abilene State Park in Texas. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Scene of Christmas weekend at Abilene State Park in Texas. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Scene of Christmas weekend at Abilene State Park in Texas. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

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