THE Trip, THE Encore' :: A Day in Fredericksburg and Luckenbach Texas

Copyright 2012, CABS for Reflections From the Fence

November 20, 2012

After a morning of taking care of business in the rigs, J,  D, Man and I headed for Fredericksburg for a late lunch and to just walk around town and take in the sights.

First stop, lunch, and what a lunch it was.  The Spätzle was delish!

After a leisurely lunch and a walk around the gardens snapping photos we stopped near the Vereins Kirche where there were holiday decorations. You can learn more about the Vereins Kirche and the museum and history here.   (Love the roses and the holiday decorations on the building, not sure I will ever get used to Christmas in the south, no snow, no ice, no frozen body parts.  Roses blooming and holiday decorations and lights.  WOW!)

I had spied this pyramid on the way to lunch and I just had to have a photo for our German D-I-L.  It stands in the lawn near the Vereins Kirche.  We would visit again at night.  The area was beautifully decorated.  You can read all about this pyramid here, the first extra large pyramid in the US.

After taking loads of photos we took a ride over to Luckenbach Texas.  If you are ever in the area, you must drive over, REALLY, you must!

Out back this evening there were a number of pickers entertaining, Yep, they were good!

Every town in Texas has a cowboy:

We enjoyed a great lunch and a variety of sites, German holiday decorations and cowboys and pickin'.  Another great day in Texas in the fall.



.

THE Trip, THE Encore' :: Galveston to Fredericksburg Texas, Bridges, Underpasses, Fire.

Copyright 2012, CABS for Reflections From the Fence

November 18, 2012

About 285 miles right through downtown Houston, yessireee.

Bye bye ocean and beach, on the way out of Jamaica Beach:

Downtown Houston, see I told ya!  LOL

How many layers do you count?  I count 5.  I know, sometimes I get these weird things that I become interested in, almost like artwork tho, isn't it?

My GPS said, take this road as a cut off, when I saw this underpass I momentarily panicked.  Till I read that we had 13 foot 8 inches.  We only need 13 foot 1 inch.  LOL

We crossed the Colorado River any number of times, I lost count, here is one such passing with a nice bridge, I love bridges, don't you?  Oh, and LOTS of clearance on this one!

As we passed through the Bastrop Texas area there was plenty (seemed like miles) of evidence of the fires from 2011.  There is a Wikipedia article about the fires.

Here in the cab of Jolly I do some navigating, with the aid of not one, not even two, but three different devices.  And, I still manage to direct us into situations where U turns are required.  GULP.  And, yes, there are also paper maps/atlases within grabbing distance.

We will spend Thanksgiving week in the Fredericksburg area, actually in Stonewall Texas, lots of history and beauty here.  Yes, I even cooked for turkey day!  LOL




.