'Dinner' last night was at the only McDonalds in the world that makes inedible fries. Okay, so they're ALL technically inedible, but these were hard as rocks. We'd have gone back to Chuy's, but our digestive tracts are apparently not as robust or forgiving as Mr. Madden's.
Went for a run along the deserted streets while the morning was still cool. Nice to get a bit of exercise after days of sitting, laying, eating & drinking.
Back on the road, unbroken desert morphs into low mesas, ancient lake beds of rock, broken by time. The ground is covered with stones, yuccas, & prickly pear, and it's easy to imagine gunfights in the outcroppings, but hard to imagine anybody traversing this land on foot or horseback. There really is a town called Road Forks down here, and a Junction! If anything, Texas is TOO big, and they've run out of names: 3 days at 80mph and it's still going.
Fredericksburg, an old German town and one of few places to have had, and respected, a treaty with the Indians that allowed it to prosper, is FULL of tiny perfect homes, preserved with obvious pride. One store had a beautiful selection of intricate yet inexpensive quilts which were, alas, made in China. Robbi couldn't bring herself to buy one, though I wish she had.
Back on the road, unbroken desert morphs into low mesas, ancient lake beds of rock, broken by time. The ground is covered with stones, yuccas, & prickly pear, and it's easy to imagine gunfights in the outcroppings, but hard to imagine anybody traversing this land on foot or horseback. There really is a town called Road Forks down here, and a Junction! If anything, Texas is TOO big, and they've run out of names: 3 days at 80mph and it's still going.
Fredericksburg, an old German town and one of few places to have had, and respected, a treaty with the Indians that allowed it to prosper, is FULL of tiny perfect homes, preserved with obvious pride. One store had a beautiful selection of intricate yet inexpensive quilts which were, alas, made in China. Robbi couldn't bring herself to buy one, though I wish she had.
The scenery rather suddenly turns quite green, with extensive pecan orchards and prosperous-looking farms and ranches, though the ground is still largely rock-strewn. Behind fences are camels, bison, goats and turkeys, & lots of cows, horses and deer, the latter mostly torn up by the roadside. Almost tore up a 4' snake ourselves, searching out the Bernini Sculpture Ranch on a back road.
In a Subway in Ozona, a guy who had once worked in Guelph recognized my Sleemans t-shirt and recommended an old-fashioned Texas-style BBQ in a tiny place called Driftwood, 10 miles or so outside of Austin. The place was so hidden in the trees that we almost missed it, but the smell of hickory smoke caught us, and we knew we'd struck gold, cuz the place was huge, and packed, and the meal of pork ribs, potatoe salad etc., served on broad old wooden tables with slab benches was fully satisfying.
In a Subway in Ozona, a guy who had once worked in Guelph recognized my Sleemans t-shirt and recommended an old-fashioned Texas-style BBQ in a tiny place called Driftwood, 10 miles or so outside of Austin. The place was so hidden in the trees that we almost missed it, but the smell of hickory smoke caught us, and we knew we'd struck gold, cuz the place was huge, and packed, and the meal of pork ribs, potatoe salad etc., served on broad old wooden tables with slab benches was fully satisfying.
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