We've just left our dear friends Sunny & Bob Sappington who we have visited with for the last 2 days here in San Marcos, Texas. It has been wonderful to see them after so many years. They were our neighbors when we lived in Houston and we've always held them is very high esteem. We've truly enjoyed their Texas hospitality and have spent a lot of time catching up.
Yesterday we visited with them until mid-afternoon and then headed to Austin. Austin used to be a hill country mid-size city with the university and the capital. Now its a large city with the university and the capital. Problem is its still a small city in terms of many of its little hilly streets. We had a great visit to the Texas State Museum next to the capital where we got a good review of Texas state history (Sam Austin, Sam Houston, San Jacinto, General Santa Ana and of course the independence in 1836). After an IMAX movie we headed south back to San Marcos. Stopped at Cabellas and then Chili's for dinner. Great margaritas: The Presidente. Excellent. Bought a margarita shaker there for $2. Made of 100% solid plastic! Now I think the trailer is complete...
Today Sunny offered to bring "loaded" breakfast burritos for breakfast. Delicious! So the four of us had breakfast in the trailer and they had the 45 second tour of the place. Afterwards they headed home and we walked over to the river (San Marcos) next to our camp site. Beautiful rapid flowing river. Later we went into San Marcos to visit the Aquarena Springs at Texas State University. The San Marcos is the site of the beginning of the release of spring water from the huge aquifer that lies underneath the area and forms the basis for the San Marcos river that empties into the Guadalupe River and then finally into the Bay of San Antonio and the Gulf of Mexico. It is unbelievably clear and we were able to view the release of the water coming through holes in the limestone floor of the river via glass bottomed boats that takes you on a short tour of the lake at the head of the river. Its truly hard to believe that San Marcos/San Antonio/Austin has the same level of rainfall that Seattle receives each year. Except theirs is in large concentrated time periods whereas Seattle is a constant drizzle throughout the entire year. Even with 35 inches a year, the State needs to find 35 millions of water per day in the next 10 years to meet the needs of the influx of people moving into the area. This afternoon we picked up Sunny and Bob and after a brief tour of the Hill Country of Texas and beautiful views, we found ourselves in Wimberly, Texas in front of the Wimberly Pie Shop. It beckoned us in and we walked out with a cherry pie (for tonight) and a Pecan Pie (for Thanksgiving - into the freezer). We returned to San Marcos for a lovely dinner at Palmers a local favorite restaurant.
Margarita update: Margarita Martini served with 3 olives at Palmer's was great! We headed back to Sunny & Bob's and attacked the cherry pie. After several hours of good talk we made our adieus. We've had a great visit with them. We are now preparing to head further East 400 miles+ into Louisiana tomorrow morning.
PS: The sewer hook-up went off uneventful...
Ciao
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