Remembering a few favorite spots on the road….(boo hoo)

  The next few days around here are going to get hectic, but will be great “fodder” for blogging…if I live through it.  Our youngest daughter and her husband and almost 2 year old are coming in late Thursday night.  They will be staying  with us until Sunday and we will all be attending our son, Kelly’s, 40th birthday party Saturday afternoon and evening. …and into the night, I have a feeling.  I have Aiden’s room ready and can’t wait get my hands on him….My blog may not happen until the Sunday when they leave for home…I could be incapacitated, recovering or hung over…maybe all three …temporarily.

  I was going through some RV trip pictures ( with hankie in hand), and ran across our visit to the LBJ Ranch in the Hill Country of Texas.  By now you know how I love history, and this trip was very special…

…The LBJ Ranch was an amazing place, and it was free!  You could drive yourself through the ranch..If you wanted to get a guided tour of the “Texas White House”, A.K.A.  LBJ’s office, it cost $1.00 per person…and it was a very interesting and informative tour…As you can see,  it was Christmas time, and I could sense how warm and homey it used to be when Lady Bird and LBJ spent a Christmas here….I do love Christmas in Texas…jalapeno pepper lights and all. (How is it that WE  don’t have any of those??..note to self..get the red pepper lights).

On our way back from the LBJ Ranch, we had to stop at Luckenbach, Texas….”with Waylon and Willie and the boys”…On the weekends they have local musicians, pickers, and pluckers, harmonica players, fiddlers and sometimes a washtub player (don’t ask)..  They  show up and sing requests from us baseball cap wearing (see Dennis is photo below) tourists… for tips…They sit inside the General Store, which in itself is a real trip!,

 

….There is something about Texas that warms my soul…Is it the people, the history, the 7 different regions???  Texas is one of the few states that you can be at the Rio Grande amongst the cactus at 9AM, and dipping your toes in the Gulf of Mexico  at Corpus Christi by 1PM…It is home to the fabulous Hill Country, The Piney Woods, The Gulf Coast, the High plains, and the beautiful, mountainous Big Bend….ZOWEE!!!…AND YEE HAW!!! WE DO LOVE TEXAS, YESSIREE!!!

Update on the train car restaurant…

  They are working on the front of the train car, rebuilding the nose…they took off the ugly metal stuff that was suppose to make it look like a California Zephyr….They are getting it to look like it did in 1912 when Teddy Roosevelt used it in his Bull Moose Presidential Campaign….I am STOKED to see it complete..(“stoked” is the one the workers chose to use…and I kinda like it, it makes me feel younger).

So today I am boiling 5 dozen eggs for 120 deviled eggs for Kelly’s party..I am making spaghetti salad for 75 people, getting Italian beef ready for the crockpot tomorrow morning, making Greek Pasta Salad, Hot Salsa, yada yada yada…Busy few days at the Cave Dwellings…Pictures to follow..and I’m sure a few stories to tell….