Blogs from Fredericksburg, Texas, United States, North America

THE BASICS The very cold weather has been The Story of our last week. We are cozy in the RV with electricity, internet, cable, etc. But we have drained all the water out of the tanks, which causes mild inconveniences. More importantly, we have skipped some visits which we had considered making. Which just means we will have to come back this way some day... We spent three nights in El Paso, and visited the Border Patrol Museum, Golden Horseshoe, Art Museum, Railroad Museum, and walked the downtown historic tour. And we spent a day driving to and from Carlsbad Caverns, an awesome spot. John, glued to weather reports, read them wisely, and we headed east for the next two days. A short drive on Thursday brought us to Fredericksburg, where we will be staying for ... read more

December 12, 2010 Sunday Drove thru Fredericksburg and pretty much just gave it a look over as I have been here several times before. It's a neat little town and mostly German. It is usually full of tourist walking to view the various shops etc. so you have to be careful not to run over one of them. You can park on main but I wouldn't recommend it. It is very crowded and you have to back out into a very busy main street. Better to take a right on Lincoln street just past the Chester Nimitz/Museum of the Pacific War museum and go over to Austin Ave to park on the street or at the visitor center. The visitor center is worth visiting anyway. They have public restrooms (always important if you are a man ... read more

That's where we are just now. Another motel again. We've made over half the way from New Orleans to El Paso today. Tomorrow we'll be in Mexico for the day, I just hope they'll let us back in again. We had warm weather, at least 20 °C, very probably warmer and then it started raining! The swamp lands of Louisiana passed by and turned into the wide prairies. We stopped at Orlando's Pizza on the way. It was a place you only heard people speaking Spanish. But it was cheap, 4,99 $ for a pizza, salad, pasta and pie buffet and very good actually. You can't really go wrong with a big fresh salad, a slice of pizza, water and perhaps a little slice of apple pie after. It was great to have internet again and ... read more

I was reading “1,000 Places To See Before You Die” by Patricia Shultz before our trip and I came across an article about Fredericksburg in the Texas hill country. President Lyndon Johnson called it “a special corner of God’s real estate”. The book also described about the sea of purplish bluebonnets outside and around Fredericksburg. Fredericksburg is located about 65 miles northwest of San Antonio. And we had a rental car! So after a hearty breakfast at Pesca at Watermark Hotel, we got on I-10 West with Lauren as the navigator. We took the exit at Comfort and proceeded to head north on Hwy 87. Before long, we were driving through rolling hills with gentle turns amidst area of grassy pastures. We kept searching for any signs of purple bluebonnets but we didn’t see any. It ... read more

We started our day with a pancake breakfast at the campground clubhouse. Then we headed out into the Texas Hill Country. North of San Antonio there really were hills! From the freeway, we saw a store called "The Look" advertising country furnishings. On the roof it said, "Cowhides Mean Romance. Well, that got Rich's attention, so we had to investigate. They had deer antler chandeliers, furniture made of longhorn horns, lots of kinds of hides, rugs, and Texas-style mission-style ranch furniture. It was quite the store! We didn't find anything we needed, but there was a quote we liked - "Friends are family members you meet along the way." We were talking about ways to teach kids to grow up happy and satisfied with what they have. We have a new motto -"Dream Within Your Means". ... read more

From Matt - Have been back home for several days now, gone through lots of pictures and added over 50 to the pages where there were none before. If you are still interested I have added pics to the following blog entries : Catch Up; Amber Mountains; 3 Amigos...; Waiting in Joburg and Paris at last... . Vance and Rush have the best safari pics so there will be more animal pictures when I get them from Vance. This will probably be the last blog and I had a few things still to say about our last stop - Paris. Still expensive but oh so worth it. Contrary to popular belief Paris is a very friendly place! Even with our lousy Tex-French we got along with everyone. This was my second visit to Paris and both ... read more