Just sayin'
Posted on 01/28/2010 7:29:39 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
1. Luckenbach
2. Leakey
3. Fredericksburg
4. Jefferson
5. Gruene
6. Bandera
7. Alpine
8. Kerrville
9. Granbury
10. Muenster
Well, if you like an area with very high humidity, that is the place for you.
My wife and I, along with some friends, went to Corpus last summer for several days. At the time, my wife was confined to a wheelchair for any walking that involved long distances.
We took a stroll along the seawall and the piers for about an hour or so and, when we returned to the van, I pushed the wheelchair next to the passenger door and helped her into the car. After fastening her seatbelt, I turned to fold the wheelchair and put it into the van, but it wasn't there ...
... the wind had pushed it away from the van and over the edge of the seawall into the surf. It took me a half-hour to recover the wheelchair from the rocks and tidepools.
Sure is windy down there. I guess I'm lucky she wasn't still in the chair when it went over the edge ...
You must be related to my college roomate.
We have friends who lives close to the CC Naval Air Station. He loves the wind in the area for wind surfing.
He works in other states most of the time, so she is alone for the most part. Every time a hurricane gets close, she heads to our house for the duration.
I love Wimberly. Have you been to the glass factory there?
That’s one heck of a bike ride!
Do check out the Wimberly Glass, you can watch them blow the glass right there. We always stop. 2 of my boys went college in San Marcos, so we used to get thru there often. I always thought Wimberly looked like a nice place to retire. Reminds me a little of home (Ruidoso NM).
You must be Chinese.
Thanks...we love the low crime rate. As with any town this close to dallas, people are discovering Forney and its growing a bit fast. But most of the new neighbors seem nice and add to the town rather than take away from it.
The best part, like most of Texas, its a solid republican town and no one seems to mind speaking their mind about the political situation in America. I can carry my guns to the truck without phone calls to the police.
Balch Springs...just good old working class people, and cops who aren’t afraid to keep it that way.
Just sayin'
:^D
San Marcos is a great town, always loved it.
I have a lot of interesting memories of evenings spent in Luckenbach, Willie Nelson’s old hangout!
Riding the tubes down the river in New Braunfels was a yearly thing with my kids.
Your wife would, I'm sure, be reassured to hear that you said it was lucky she wasn't swept away in the wind... some unfortunate folks might have seen that as a missed opportunity!
**Let’s go to Luckenbach, Texas ...
Waylon & Willie and the boys!**
Yowzah! :^D
I have heard of folks doing that (the tubes on
the river), but I never did it. Sounds like FUN,
though!
[I never did it. Sounds like FUN]
You should still do it. A hot summer day, lie back in a large inner tube and just drift down the river. Some places you can drift for miles and they have areas where they pick you up and take you back!
When my children were young they went to summer camp in Comfort, Tx. every year.
When I picked them up we would go on up to Fredericksburg, eat and enjoy the shops. On a Friday or Saturday evening is when we headed down to Luchenbach for the ‘gatherings’.
The original ‘Beer-joint’ was scenic but what was ‘magic’ was the gathering of people in the evening. They came from all over, many with their guitars, and the evenings were spent talking and singing. There was no rowdiness, everyone was polite. Many of them knew or had been there in earlier years when Willie or other big stars were there.
Some of them had already recorded songs and I’m sure many more went on to some measure of fame, if I could only recall their names years later! Beer drinking went on but it was still ‘child friendly’ compared to now days.
The outdoors was bare bones, tree logs and tree stumps to sit on unless you brought your own folding aluminum chairs. Wooden spools [telephone line spools?] were the few tables.
Guinea hens roamed all over. I had never seen one before and my son gathered some of the long pretty feathers, which I still have in a large baggie in his closet.
There was 1 outhouse, ONE! Lol.
Memories probably grow fonder as the years go by, but my kids have some good memories of Luchenbach in a nicer, kinder time.
Luckily I wasn’t a beer drinker because I had to drive us to our south Texas town later those ‘once a year nights’, lol.
No, Luckenbach was never a ‘town’. Just a few buildings but they did build the dance hall which drew crowds. Been many years since I was there so don’t know what it’s like now.
Yes, what we experienced was a fun time, that’s why I wrote about it to you. Think we hit it at just the ‘right’ time.
Gotta go cook dinner!! Take care.
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