Monthly Archives: February 2010
Plans in Jello…
Well, as usual, we found our plans written in Jello.
We had planned to leave here in San Marcos this past Friday, but now we won’t be leaving until tomorrow, Sunday. It took longer than I figured to get all of Gina’s new stuff set up, including a new computer, and her Raccoon Cam that lets here watch the raccoons on her back porch that she feeds every night.
It’s pretty neat. It has remote pan and tilt, and night vision that really works.
But it’s all working OK now, so tomorrow we will head west to Balmorhea, TX to spend the night before arriving in Las Cruces, NM on Monday night for a couple of days.
Then it’s on to Tucson, Gila Bend, and Yuma.
More tomorrow…
Jager Schnitzel, Weiner Schnitzel, and Red Cabbage…
Today we took a road trip about 50 miles west to Fredericksburg to have some great German food at Der Lindenbaum, probably our favorite German restaurant, and do a little shopping. But before heading out we stopped off at the rig to feed the cats and be sure everything was OK.
The Texas Hill Country is still beautiful, even in winter, and the drive was fun…and interesting.
It’s not that unusual to see buffalo and burros in Texas, but
camels??
For what it’s worth, these one-humped camels are Dromedary camels, and are native to Africa and the Middle East. The two-humped camels, or Bactrian camels come from the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.
And what they’re doing outside of Fredericksburg Texas I have no idea.
As always, the food at Der Lindenbaum was delicious. I had the Weiner Schnitzel, and Jan and Gina had the Jager Schnitzel. And we all have the great German potato salad and red cabbage. Jan and I like the red cabbage so much we always get a extra order and split it.
Wiener Schnitzel is a thin pork cutlet that has been lightly battered and fried, and Jager Schnitzel is Weiner Schnitzel covered in a fresh mushroom sauce. Hmm Hmm Good!
Coming home we stopped at the Wildseed Farm, so Jan could, strangely enough, shop for jewelry. Don’t ask!
Getting home, we went out for burgers at Ninfa’s Tacos and Burgers in Canyon Lake. Really, really good, large handmade patties.
More tomorrow…
