Hill Country and West

Texas Stonehenge

Wildflowers
LBJ's Boyhood Home
Luckenbach Band
Luckenbach Guitarist
Cowboy Poet
Windy & Dusty
Calm & Clear

We moved to the Riverside RV Park in Ingram 70 miles northwest of San Antonio. We spent two days seeing the Hill Country and had a grand time. The first day we went to see Stonehenge and Easter Island statues in Hunt. Even though everything in Texas is big this replica of Stonehenge is only 60% the size of the original. It was built by two ranchers in 1989 and sits in one of their fields for all to see. The next day we did a big loop tour of over 200 miles in the CRV looking for wildflowers and other sites. In Johnson City we visited Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park which includes his boyhood home and exhibits covering his presidency. It is very well done and outlines his accomplishments for people in civil rights, education and the environment. They also did a good job of showing how the Vietnam war brought down his presidency. I visited Johnson City while stationed in San Antonio and in forty years it has changed very little. We enjoyed the ride on some of the back roads and did see wildflowers that the Hill Country is famous for but not as many as we had hoped to see. We stopped at Fort Martin Scott (Nanc's brother) and, at a restaurant where we stopped for lunch, saw a sign for a performer, Dale Mayfield (Nanc's nephew). The highlight of the day was Luckenbach, Texas made famous in a song by Waylon and Willie. We stopped there early in the day and were told they would be having music that evening. We decided to return and had a wild time listening to the music as several musicians played and a cowboy poet entertained a crowd of about thirty people, the majority of which were local. Not bad when you realize the population of Luckenbach is 3 and is in the middle of no where. Yesterday we drove through the wind across barren west Texas. For the last fifty miles heading north to Pecos we had forty mph crosswinds that rocked the motor home, sent tumbleweed rolling across the highway and filled the air with dust. The last precipitation in Pecos was 2 inches of snow on Thanksgiving. Even though it is barren, they farm using underground water, pump a lot of oil and have wind turbines generating electricity. After only one night at the Trapark RV Park in Pecos we are going to Carlsbad, New Mexico