Early morning at the Cracker Barrel of Sulphur, Louisiana:

I drove into Texas to visit Big Thicket National Preserve:

Big Thicket contains at least ten distinct ecosystems, each driven primarily by how much drainage and flooding is present.  The area is a convergence of Western, Southeastern, and Eastern biomes:

I ran one of the trails that passes through a Cypress slough:

I continued east to visit Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park:

The park also preserves the nearby homestead of LBJ’s grandparents:

I drove over to Johnson City’s library to use their WiFi (my 2GB per month data plan is proving inadequate for this unplanned trip).  At closing, I asked for permission to overnight in the parking lot.  See the trip map for today’s drive.