Timberon (restaurant, club, airplane)

[songinthewind7]

Originally Posted by Towanda

Wow, Songinthewind:

It looks like you are now getting REALLY close!

Are you all packed and ready to move?

We were supposed to close April 4 and be out April 6 so we packed a uhaul the sunday before, went to timberon, unpacked the truck and came back the next day to close. On the way home, we got a call talking about the problems of the floodplain and septic/bedroom issues and we were not going to close. It's been almost 2 months trying to get this straightened out and living at my brothers house the whole time and finally it's time.
I'm still having nightmares of something else happening before closing but I've gotten my hopes up too many times before we had the money in hand and closed. This time I'm waiting until tuesday and make sure we close and then do a happy dance.
Oh, so yes we are ready to go.
We should be there the middle of June.

[songinthewind7]

Originally Posted by Cathy4017

Finally...wow.

I will keep the fingers crossed that all goes well....and it certainly should, after all that has transpired!!!

Dang.

Thanks Cathy.

[Taylorcraftbc65]

Hey Canine*Castle, This is my first post on this thread, I am a regular contributor to the Wallacetown Texas post. (Wallacetown is just south of Timberon, about 20 miles south of the Texas/ New Mexico State line, and a lot drier, and 20 to 30 degrees hotter). I have an acre in the tall trees, west of the airport in Timberon, and 80 acres with my own 4,700 foot runway at my place seven miles east of Cornudas, Texas, the name of the town for years before Jerry Wallace changed it to Wallacetown.
I am going to put a nice RV up on my place later this year, so that, next year, I can come up, (a 20 minute flight from my place), when the heat down here starts to fry my brain.
I have seen a BUNCH of deer the times that I have been up to Timberon, but have never seen a bear there. I know that they ARE there, but I've never seen one. Brie

[Taylorcraftbc65]

So Songinthewind7, did you finally get out, and up to Timberon? Where is your place in relation to the airport? Brie

[chilegal]

Song is up here, and I can't think of any of the CD people up here real close to the airport.

Yes we have bear, mountain lions, bobcats, elk, deer, and much more.

Contact any of us to meet up.

[songinthewind7]

We've been here one year full time.
With the bear being one of my favorite wild animals, I'm sorry to say, I haven't seen one either but others have, so they are here.
The airport is on the other side of town from Chilegal and myself (maybe 4 miles away)

[Taylorcraftbc65]

I'm about a mile to a mile and a half west of the airport. If you were at the lodge, you would go past the end of the runway, past the first street on the right, up the little rise to the next street on the right, and go down it. My old place was on the second street to the right, after you went down to a draw that had a seasonal watershed, and climbed back out of it. My new place is now the NEXT street after where you would have turned to go through the watershed.
It's smaller, one acre. Vs. three, but there are MUCH more mature trees that have had their lower branches trimmed up, and the trees have been professionally thinned out a little bit. The new place looks like a park, and is VERY level. I just signed on it last week, and haven't flown up there yet to look at it. I will do that sometime in August.
The man I bought the land from, is the same guy I bought the first piece, AND my place here in Texas from. He is honest to the "inth" degree.
I haven't been up there since they put in the blacktop to Cloudcroft, Does the restaurant at the Lodge still serve meals? What about the pool and fishing ponds? I used to fly a Cessna 175, now I have a restored 1940 Taylorcraft. Brie

[songinthewind7]

I know about where you are. Pipeweld has a house over that way and so do his inlaws. He and his wife live in Texas most of the time though.

There is not a restaurant in the lodge. We have 2 restaurants here; one being the High Country Lounge and the other one is B&B Cafe. One serves breakfast and lunch and the other serves dinner and drinks/beer.

The fishing ponds are being stocked with some fish and some of the ponds are still being cleaned up.
The pool is not in working condition but is still being worked on.

[bterrib]

The first time I visited Timberon, (July 5th 08) I saw a bear. It was so close we could smell it. It was my sign to move to Timberon.

[Taylorcraftbc65]

Songinthewind7, Thanks for your fast reply. Which is the restaurant serves
dinner. Being an active pilot, I'm not interested in alchohol, but I have been
known to fly a couple of hundred miles for a good steak dinner.
The last time I was there, my friend and I ate at a weekly
dinner that the Golf Club had at that time, do they still do
that? How hard is it to get a Tee time up there?
Thanks for all your help, when I fly up, if you want an
Airplane ride, you've got one. Brie j