I haven’t written on this blog in a long time. Facebook has been easier to just a make comment or two. But I wanted to comment on a small town in NE Texas, Jefferson. It is quite a historic town. One of the unbelieveable things is that it used to be a port. Now if you look on the map for Jefferson (it’s north of Marshall on Hy 59), you will see that it is nowhere close to the “sea.” There was some back-up somewhere on the Red River which allowed Jefferson and Shreveport, Louisiana to both be ports. The other thing about Jefferson is that it is the Bed-and-Breakfast capital of Texas. There are so many beautiful restored houses that are now Beds-and-Breakfast. We stayed in one called the Azalea House. It only had 3 “visitor” bedrooms, so it was very private. Since we went there at the end of the year, it was still decorated for Christmas. We loved it so much. The breakfast we were served in our room was enough for 4 with everything so delicious! There was a little ramkin with hash browns on the bottom, breakfast gravy poured over that, and cheese melted on top. Doug liked it so much that he made that for his breakfast at home several times. We had stuffed French Toast one morning, and there was always fruit. We especially like being served in our room.

We took a ride on the Christmas train there, only it was called the New Year’s Train since Christmas was over. But the decorations were still out, and it was delightful. A park there had about 40 trees lit up. We enjoyed driving through this town seeing the houses and the decorations. I would recommend this town for anyone to visit.