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... the days we went out for food with Garrett one day to a Mexican and the other day was to a restaurant that was owned by the parents of kids on camp. They were on camp last year and they are a great family and do great food. The only problem is that the place is in an old morgue. We met some Mexican girls Pamela and Paola and went out for drinks at a bar on the wednesday it was a good night because some guy in there just kept buying the whole bar a ...

Okay, enough driving! It’s time for a hike, so off to Enchanted Rock. The largest exposed granite mound in the US, the climb is 6/10 mile long with a 425 foot elevation gain. Not so hard to go up, but extremely challenging to come down - at least for someone leery of heights. But I did it! A guy I met described it as walking off a basketball, and that’s just about right. Once I videoed the view from the top (watch ...

... powered gates, while the older ones are often fence woven with wood sticks, with chained gates and a topper of some sort. The driveways just disappear behind trees or a hill, so any home is out of site. I’ve also noticed that most of the fencing in northeast Texas was metal pipe, even on a long stretch of land, and there was very little barbed wire and no wire fencing at all. As I’ve traveled west, the pipe disappeared and wire fencing took over. And ...

Voted one of the best small towns in the U.S. by Southern Living magaine, Fredericksburg certainly has the tourists to show for it. It's visually charming, filled with a wide variety of shops and restaurants, and surrounded by beautiful country and terrific day trips. With lots of parking and good sidewalks, it's also easy to get around. But Fredericksburg has a dirty underbelly: with few exceptions, the people just aren't ...

... Stretch, the on sight mechanic tells me, "It's tent, on top of tent, on top of tent." Right now, everyone is hidden behind the reaching arms of trees, tall standing wisps of grass, and the wiry bloat of bushes. And only when the kitchen bell rings do we all come out from our tasks and sit together and chatter on. Yesterday, Oddball, the ranch's right hand man almost got shanked by ...

... operational. The Espada Aqueduct still carries water to the remaining acequias used to water fields. After spending the afternoon wandering around the missions, we continued our Southwestern Road Trip further west into the Texas Hill Country. We set up camp in Kerrville, and from there we spent the next couple of days wandering around the Hill Country. The center of the Hill Country is Fredericksburg, TX. It's a small town about 20 miles north ...

After some coffee, chai and scones at the coffee bar near our hotel, we headed West from Austin into Hill Country. It wasn't as hilly as the name might suggest. There were lots of scrubby trees & bushes along the sides of the highway.alternating with pastures full of goats, cattle, sheep or horses - your basic rural scenes. Fredericksberg is a quaint ...

Close to the little town of Fredericksburg, there lies a wonderful park called Enchanted Rock. The park is named after a large pink, granite dome that stands 425 ft tall. The park has mostly trad routes but we found few really fun climb ...

... the airport is that there is a hotel right on the edge of the tarmac! We got set up and went to dinner at the Cabernet Grill which was just down the street. We decided to take the plunge and ordered a couple glasses of Texas wine. Surprise! One of them was a pretty good viognier made by McPherson from Lubbock. The other was a nice C******nay made by Becker from ...

... rock b*nd under the tent th*t didn't sound very interesting *nd there w*sn't * line-up posted *nywhere. There w*s free Flying Dog Beer *nd t*cos in the *lley so we hung out in someone's drivew*y *nd took it e*sy for *while. We met up with M*rk *g*in *nd then overhe*rd th*t Sm*ll St*rs were going to be pl*ying *t 4pm *t Jo's Coffee so we he*ded up South Congress to check them out. The Sm*ll St*rs with frontm*n Miles Zu ...