Nacogdoches - the oldest city in Texas

Sunday, 4th May 2014

As always, blue sky, fresh air, and shining sun when we leave. The breakfast was great, including waffles in the shape of Texas!

We continue our journey to the east. Tyler is supposed to be a beautiful old city. As often, the brochure descriptions are not only too beautiful but also somehow maliciously misleading. So, there is nothing to see here and we continue to the Tyler Lakes. At a drugstore, we buy foldable camping chairs like every year, get some food at Walmart, and find a secluded spot by the lake where we have a picnic and take a two-hour siesta under tall pine trees.

The next destination, Longview (how many places with this name are there in the USA?), is a disappointment too. Described in the Texas brochure as a city with antique shops and cafes, overlooking six lakes, it turns out to be a typical street town that offers nothing but an old clock tower. So we continue to Nacogdoches, where we have a hotel reservation. We arrive there at 6:30 pm, the room is okay, and we immediately drive to downtown, which is about 3 miles away from the hotel located directly on the highway.

Nacogdoches is completely deserted! It is the oldest city in Texas, but apparently they don't understand how to make something out of this theme that attracts people.

All the stores are closed, no restaurant is open, and we just walk a bit in the setting sun through the partially old brick buildings, along beautiful Victorian houses in the side streets, which also allow conclusions about German residents.

On the way back to the hotel, you can find the usual suspects on the main street and we decide to have dinner at Chilli's and go to bed after 11:00 pm.