greybeard
Herd Master
My twin brother and I have long wanted to make a trip thru my part of Texas..the Texas he's never seen. By my part of Texas, I mean the part I've lived in and traveled thru before I moved back to East Texas...the rough and wide open part in the Trans-Pecos and Concho Valley, as well as the South Texas coastal region. With his failing health, it was now..or never, so he came down from Arkansas last Saturday and we left my place just about a week ago this time. He has a new F-150 full double cab, with 1500 miles on it, so we took it..just he and I..left the spousal units at home to do whatever wives do when we aren't around. No timetable, no route set, enough clothes for a week and enough cash and plastic to buy new ones if we ran out of clean ones. Only exception to that was we had to be in San Angelo to meet and visit with our cousin on the 19th which neither of us have seen since her mother passed away in 2014.
Brother has trouble walking, so our sight-seeing was going to be somewhat limited, and most of the pics I took were on his iPhone so he would have them to show and send to his kids in Arkansas, but I'll share a few here from my phone and camera.
We left the hated pine trees behind and the first stop was Caldwell in Burleson county for real kolaches..not those stupid weenie in a bun things some people call kolaches. We wanteds the real thing, Czech style.
From there, it was on to Lagrange.
LaGrange to the Colorado River overlook at the state park. It contains the memorial and tomb of the Texians that were killed in the Dawson massacre, as well as the bodies of the men who were executed later in the Meir Expedition at Salado Hacienda in Mexico in 1842. Rather than recount what every real Texan already knows here is their story:
http://www.fayettecountyhistory.org/monument_hill.htm
What it looks like:
From Lagrange, we went down to Gonzales, where the historic "Come And Take It" story originated in 1835. We had a great ribeye at a little place in Gonzales called GG's. Pretty fancy place, good table linen and all and the prices were exorbitant but we didn't much care. Prime beef. No pics of that little town. but we then turned back north and caught I-10 to Seguin and took the (very) long way around Bexar and went up thru Fredericksburg, New Braunfels, followed the River Road a bit, and then went Southwest & wound around back south to spend the night at Kerrville. I-10 from Gonzales to Sequin was the only driving brother did the whole trip--he tends to try to sightsee and drive and wanders over the white line too much. Drove around Kerrville area a bit the next morning (Monday), had an unmemorable breakfast at some little eatery that didn't serve biscuits and gravy, then hit I-10 west again.
We had 24 hrs to burn before we had to be in San Angelo.
I took 277 South and headed for the Rio Grand and Amistad Reservoir at Del Rio.
To be continued...
Brother has trouble walking, so our sight-seeing was going to be somewhat limited, and most of the pics I took were on his iPhone so he would have them to show and send to his kids in Arkansas, but I'll share a few here from my phone and camera.
We left the hated pine trees behind and the first stop was Caldwell in Burleson county for real kolaches..not those stupid weenie in a bun things some people call kolaches. We wanteds the real thing, Czech style.
From there, it was on to Lagrange.
LaGrange to the Colorado River overlook at the state park. It contains the memorial and tomb of the Texians that were killed in the Dawson massacre, as well as the bodies of the men who were executed later in the Meir Expedition at Salado Hacienda in Mexico in 1842. Rather than recount what every real Texan already knows here is their story:
http://www.fayettecountyhistory.org/monument_hill.htm
What it looks like:
From Lagrange, we went down to Gonzales, where the historic "Come And Take It" story originated in 1835. We had a great ribeye at a little place in Gonzales called GG's. Pretty fancy place, good table linen and all and the prices were exorbitant but we didn't much care. Prime beef. No pics of that little town. but we then turned back north and caught I-10 to Seguin and took the (very) long way around Bexar and went up thru Fredericksburg, New Braunfels, followed the River Road a bit, and then went Southwest & wound around back south to spend the night at Kerrville. I-10 from Gonzales to Sequin was the only driving brother did the whole trip--he tends to try to sightsee and drive and wanders over the white line too much. Drove around Kerrville area a bit the next morning (Monday), had an unmemorable breakfast at some little eatery that didn't serve biscuits and gravy, then hit I-10 west again.
We had 24 hrs to burn before we had to be in San Angelo.
I took 277 South and headed for the Rio Grand and Amistad Reservoir at Del Rio.
To be continued...