Wednesday, May 9, 2012

5/7 Went on tour at Toyota plant were they make the Tacoma and Tundra. It was an interesting tour but couldn't take pics inside plant.
                     These pics are at their visitors center which was very informative.


                                       This is our spot at a nice RV park in San Antonio.
                                            5/7 Saying goodbye to San Antoinio

Saturday, May 5, 2012

5/5 Made it to The Alamo in San Antonio


5/4 At San Antonio on the Riverwalk. Very nice walk and/or boat ride though it is 95 degrees and humid right now.





Thursday, May 3, 2012

5/3 Went to City Market BBQ in Luling, yum! It is a famous BBQ place that was about 8 miles from the State Park.
 Ordered by the pound, so got one pound each of ribs and brisket plus white bread. Food comes wrapped in butcher paper and you can eat there or take it home. Some of it made it home.
                                             This is the sausage being smoked.
                                 They are stoking the wood smoke pit and cutting the ribs.
                                          We sat by a real cowboy with a hat and spurs!
This is a pretty view looking to the west that we saw on our way back to the park.
5/3 Interesting Palmetto State Park, very tropical.
                              Has lots of swamp areas but surprisingly no mosquitos, yeah!
 This is a water tower that takes underground water and puts it in the swamp areas.
                                                             Lots of palm trees.
 This building was built in the 1930's with the CCC. It is all stone, very solid
                                                      Dick likes these buzzards
I like the wildflowers

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

5/2 We have gone about 90 miles west to another state park.
 This was a nice view looking towards the west.
 We are at Palmetto State Park and have a shady nice spot for a few days.
 This is the view out our window, lots of trees
 We took a mile hike on this trail. We were all alone but it was about 88 degrees and humid. This is the San Marcos River that is close to our campsite.

5/1 Had this ice cream for my birthday. It was so good we went 40 miles up the road to the Blue Bell ice cream plant. We couldn't take pics inside so only have these few. We did get a scoop of ice cream at the end of the tour.
 We went for another 50 miles looking for wild blue bonnets. Didn't see this pic.
 I found one blue bonnet about a mile from the state park. We just missed the blooms this year.