Daily Archives: June 18, 2010
Austin…almost…
Since we’re kind of near Austin, here’s Austin by Blake Shelton.
We left the Abilene KOA about 7:45 am heading to Burnet, TX about 190 miles away. We took a slight detour about 5 miles down the road to stop for breakfast at the Cracker Barrel in nearby Albany, TX, the same one we ate at for dinner last night. Since the Cracker Barrel backs up to a WalMart parking lot we had no trouble parking the rig for a while. In fact when we got there we parked right next to another RV also eating at Cracker Barrel.
We were back on the road at 8:45 heading east on I-20 for about 50 miles before turning south on US 183. As yesterday, the roads were good and we had no real problems.
The only noticeable thing was the wind, a lot of it. We took some pretty heavy gusts as we got further and further into the beautiful Texas Hill Country.
We arrived at the Inks Lake RV park about 12:30 pm. The park is kind of primitive in a way with gravel roads and a few trees. But it has all the necessary things for a good RV park for us – 50 amps, good water pressure, level sites, and a clear view for the satellite dish.
And the other big plus, especially for Jan, was animals, lots of them. They have six different kinds of deer, and llamas.
They’re all very tame, and most of them started moving toward the fence where I was taking pictures. I’m sure we’ll be checking them out further in the next few days.
About 2 pm I drove up the road a couple of miles to get a good cell signal so that I could finalize the wedding dinner plans at Salt Lick BBQ in Driftwood, TX about 20 miles southwest of Austin.
Just like the other day in Ft. Sumner, NM, I have pitiful cell phone service down in this valley where we’re parked, but my Verizon AirCard works just fine on the Internet.
About 4 pm we drove over to the lake house to meet our daughter Brandi and future son-in-law Lowell, our son Chris, daughter-in-law Linda, granddaughter Piper and her friend Ian.
Chris had brought up his speedboat and a jetski, and quickly got them launched in Inks Lake so the kids hit the lake to get cool.
The rest of us sat around and just relaxed. It’s nice to know that we’ll be here for a week just gelling with our kids,and kids-to-be.
About 7:30 pm we all headed into Burnet to have dinner. The place we were originally headed was closed, so we ended up at Jardin Corona, a new Mexican restaurant that turned out to very good.
Next Friday, we’ll head about 80 miles south to Canyon Lake for 10 days before heading out on the road again.
More tomorrow…
Quote of the day:
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. – Phyllis Diller
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