You wrote that Steve? Great song bud!!

However, if you are a Texas Aggie, women there DO treat you mean.

I've been there. That's ironically where I wrote the song Abilene.

WSS

I've been there. That's ironically where I wrote the song Abilene.

WSS

Gip,

1. While in Austin go to Franklin BBQ and various food trucks are popular.

2. While around Austin, go to Fredericksburg, its a cool little town in the German hill country.

3. Why in the fuck would you go to Lubbock? Tech?

4. Amarillo has that restaurant with the gaint steak that you get free if you eat it all.

for $10 million a year i'd live in your closet.

too much city for you? for a cool $2 mil you could live up here and have the best of both worlds.

don't get me wrong, i like the sound of crickets and the glow of fireflies. but to have that it doesn't mean you have to live in mayberry. i think i'd go crazy now after years of 'over-socialization' to be back in sandusky where you can't get food delivered after 9pm or go to a store after 10 because nothing is open except the gas stations. screw that.

but i do miss the drive-thru liquor stores, lol.

A few years ago, we visited my Son & his Family in Boerne, Texas, a little north of San Antonio, over the end of May. My "special treat" from him was an outing to the original Rudy's BBQ & Country Store. In addition to the normal fantastic Texas hospitality, they went the extra mile for this old 'Nam Vet.

As we stood in line to place our order, a lady came up & asked me if I was a combat Vet. When I said "Vietnam", she said, "Your meal is free. Thank you." Rudy's picked up the tab for ALL combat Vets for something like 2 weeks around Memorial Day & I can't describe what that meant to me.

Is Rudy's good? I will NEVER go back to Texas without heading to Rudy's! Great food & even BETTER people!

Mike

lol... you're road tripping the one area of Texas I have not spent time in (and I have no desire to do so)... the panhandle. But in San Antonio I might have a place or two you've not hit visiting your daughter.

Do the scenic loop in the hills NW of San Antonio... but watch your speed... especially though Grey Moss. Neat winding road of old homes with some spectacular views of the city.

Speaking of Grey Moss... check out the Grey Moss Inn... tad pricey (except for their amazing wine list where the mark ups as fairly reasonable), but fantastic food including "wild game" specials most nights. Foods are grilled using a round, outdoor pit over Mesquite (what else would they use?). Ask about their Zin Din... I've attended three and made a great friend there.

For cheap and grubby check out the Tip Top Café in San Anton proper. Best Chicken Fried Steak I've ever had and onion rings to die for...

I have wandered around Hill Country....but have not stayed or ate at the places you mention above.

No San Anton trip is complete without at least one meal at La Fogata... huge, open air Mexican restaurant.

I may have been there. I did go to a place that sounds similar.

Some folks also have to have at least one breakfast at the Gunther House, but it's not worth the wait IMO. The better option is to visit it (interesting mini museum) and buy some Pancake and/or Waffle mix... both are awesome.

Day trips include:

Wine country concentrated north of the city. Two fav wineries are Becker's (east of Fredericksberg past the wildflower farm) and Texas Hills (Johnson City). I especially love Texas Hills wines, but Becker's is special as it had a B&B on the property in a renovated 1800's cabin. Spent a honeymoon there.

I have been to both Fredericksburg and Johnson City....but have not been to the places you mention.

November will likely be too late to catch the colors, but if Fall comes late to the area check out a great little Texas park named "Lost Maples". Maple tress are likely common where you live, but they have no business growing in central Texas. Yet somehow there's a valley with a hundreds of them.

Well, yes, right....if I want to see maple leafs turning in the fall I can look out my back door.....but I once had two maples in the yard which both died and I cut down. I have been out to Del Rio and the Amistad NRA for some interesting nature walks.....where I got introduced to the horse crippler.

I like food trucks. I remember when my ship was in the Yards in Long Beach, we used to hit the food truck after the bars closed. It was parked at the back gate and they had damn good pastrami sandwiches.

Food trucks are gay. If you like the experience of sitting out in the sun, then power to ya. But the food is poor and the prices are high.

4. Amarillo has that restaurant with the gaint steak that you get free if you eat it all.

Zombo, on 26 Mar 2015 - 8:47 PM, said:

It takes you 40 minutes to go 12 miles on a train? Is the train pulled by donkeys?

That's what I call Phil Taylor horse power. That train doesn't have an oxygen mask on it - does it?

LOL- as they say to each their own. Even if I was making $10 million a year, you couldn't pay me enough to live in NYC.

Most common that I've seen in Texas is a dry rub followed by basting with sauce...

When I think "dry rub" I think Memphis. There Corky's features dry, but also serves "wet" which I prefer. Of course that's pork BBQ which I love dearly.

Somewhere out east of Memphis there's the original Bozo's (only affiliated with the clown through a lawsuit of use of the name). Best wet pulled pork I've had.