Dinner at the OST (Old Spanish Trail)
There’s a John Wayne room
Or you can grab a saddle at the bar
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5:00 wine with Elaine
With my mother in law, Elaine. She has a glass of wine every evening. And now I’ve had two! So I just wanted to tell you all I love you so very much. I am the luckiest person I’ve ever known. Thanks for being in my world.
Blame Elaine. Its her fault I’m so rich and wish I could share all this happy.
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Bandera TX
We are ensconced in a park in Bandera Tx. The cowboy capital! Here for a month!
We are going to look for boots too. This will be fun. If not a bit too hot.
I am spoiled from being in northern New Mexico all “summer” (felt like fall)
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Heavy lunch
Lunch at Heavy’s Bar B Que
Beef, Chicken, Potato salad… It was plenty for several meals
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Val Verde winery
Oldest winery in Texas. It was surprising, located in a neighborhood.
Dolly tried their port, pronounced it most excellent – got one for her and one for Vince. We couldn’t be traveling without his help checking on the house.
Elaine got a couple bottles of a white, Muscat seco. Good crisp, tastes of pear, not too sweet.
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Judge Roy Bean’s saloon
At Judge Roy Bean’s saloon
It was surprising. The plantings were wonderful.
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Langtry
At Langtry there is a road runner greeting us from the plantings in front of the tourist center
He is camera shy and runs around the plants
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Mexico
So there is a little place on the Rio Grande, where we can get on a boat to go across to Mexico. Take a burro ride into town. And have a cerveza.
I can’t wait to see my mother in law on a burro.
Go donkey go.
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Well we drove to the new crossing. And there’s no way I could do it anyway. Used to you drove to the rivers edge. Now you have to walk through a govt building and gate and down a trail.
Sigh
They took away the romance.
As governments are prone to do. 😉
Too late in the day.
And low bp. So no ride for me. But look up Boquillas del Carmen. It would be fun.
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Big Bend
We are in Big Bend!
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Star party
Star party success at McDonald observatory. No moon. Clear skies. The lecture on constellations was fun. If I had taken notes i might remember some of it. 😉
And I saw Saturn through a telescope.
And some other stuff.
But I saw Saturn!
Good time.
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Balmorhea
late afternoon at Balmorhea state park, there’s been a bit of rain lately
Hugh swimming pool fed by the spring. So you can swim with the fishes.
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Texas and rain
It’s crazy rain. But the lakes are full. And I assume we are finally out of the 10+ year drought that was worse than the dust bowl days. Texas does it big.
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on the road – to Denton
On the road again…
Finally. Dolly has left the building. We are going all the way to Denton today. 40 miles. Lol. Meeting friends for dinner.
Sorry I’ve been so out of touch. Family reunion this previous weekend. And packing for this trip took me forever. I only did my stuff.
Dave did all the real work. Kitchen, fridge, dry goods…
Anyway. I’m excited.
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Dinner in Denton
When we got stopped and parked the coach this afternoon in Denton, Dave stepped out the door and with a sigh of relief said: Aaah. It’s warm.
We had a great dinner with Christy and Kelsey at the LSA burger company. Very cool. Excellent burgers. Dave and I split one and split the fries, the orders are big. Theme is Texas everything.
Kelsey is one of my favorites- bright, quick and always always enthusiastic. Major in marketing, a perfect niche. Christy is a long-standing friend. We caught up a bit in the middle of Kelsey’s busy days of college and extra curricular activities. Kelsey is just like her mom, the one in class who makes the rest of us mere mortals seem like complete slackers. Shes involved in 20 million things on and off campus and gets straight A’s while taking a bigger course load than most. Christy has just as many projects- finished and ongoing.
It seems to me that everyone I know is frenetically busy. Running faster, jumping higher. These are the olympic years. And I am all applause
and secretly hoping they get enough sleep.
After dinner we went to Recycle, used book store. Perfect dessert.
We left Clare in the coach while we went to dinner.
When we got back Dave says to Clare: you don’t know how it pains me to leave you.
Same here.