Thank you Ryan for your reply.

I just retired on the 5th. We are relocating to a town ninety miles east of Dallas. Lots of lakes and private ponds. Texas also has a lot of flat water rivers some of which I plan to float.
I will probably be alone on my float trips no one to invite. I will mostly float on week days because there will be less boat traffic and camp on sand bars and such like. Those trail shoes sound good.
There are over twenty million people in Texas, I think so many new friends.