Sunday, December 21, 2008 - Livingston TX
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Historic Roadside Park, US190, Newton County TX, December 21, 2008
Travel route for the day
From Eunice LA
- West on US190 about 190 miles
To Livingston TX
Night camp
Wal-Mart Parking Lot in Livingston TX
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Livingston TX
Wal-Mart Supercenter, 1620 West Church, Livingston, TX 77351 - (936) 327-6370
- The parking lot at the Livingston store is on a bit of a slope but it's usable.
- The store is on the north side of US190 just west of the US59 interchange
- Verizon cell phone service- yes, excellent signal
- Verizon EVDO Broadband service - yes, excellent signal
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
Sweet, Rich Hickory Milk
Hickory was another favorite. Rambling through the Southeast in the 1770s, the naturalist William Bartram observed Creek families storing a hundred bushels of hickory nuts at a time. "They pound them to pieces, and then cast them into boiling water, which, after passing through fine strainers, preserves the most oily part of the liquid" to make a thick milk, "as sweet as fresh cream, an ingredient in most of their cookery, especially hominy and corncakes." Years ago a friend and I were served hickory milk in rural Georgia by an eccentric backwoods artist named St. EOM who claimed Creek descent. Despite the unsanitary presentation, the milk was ambrosial - fragrantly nutty, delightfully heavy on the tongue, unlike anything I had encountered before.