Daily Archives: December 5, 2010
Rudy’s and Lockhart . . .
We left the lake house about 10:30 this morning. Everyone headed out at different times. Lowell, Brandi, and Landon left first, and Chris, Linda, and Piper were finishing up the closing-up of the cottage when we left.
As we had planned we stopped off at Rudy’s Country BBQ on I-35 in Round Rock for lunch. Really great BBQ! And Jan really loves their Creamed Corn, and she doesn’t like corn!
We took a new route home this time, down US-183 thru Lockhart, a town we had never visited. Driving thru town our eyes were immediately drawn to the ornate court house on the town square a block off our route. It was so distinctive I had to stop and take a couple of photos.
I really don’t ever remember seeing a court house with this much color and detail.
Built in 1894, it is listed as the most photographed court house in Texas. And it’s easy to see why.
Here’s a aerial shot from the court house website.
I noticed many of the buildings around the square had dates on them from the same time period.
All in all, a beautiful little town.
Our next stop was Buc-ee’s, about a hour away right as we got back on I-10. Great place for a potty break and some good coffee. Jan also got one of their great cranberry muffins for breakfast tomorrow.
It’s always amazing how big and busy this place it. They have over 40 gas pumps and I still would have had to wait in line to get gas. So I decided to hold off until we got to the Flying J about 100 miles down the road.
After stopping at the FJ for gas, it was only about 25 miles until we hit Beltway 8 to bypass Houston to the south, heading back to the RV park and home.
But we had one more stop to make at Sam’s for some more kitty litter. Since we were going to be gone 5 days Jan set out 3 extra litter boxes which used up what we had.
After that stop it was home for the night after a great vacation with family and friends, short as it was.
That’s it for now.
Thought for the Day:
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." – Mark Twain
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