Having a bit of fun...
Apr. 21st, 2003 01:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolariGood news! Yesterday we had a ROAD TRIP!
Bad news! I didn't get a lick of work done for my comics this week, and may end up not having comics this week due to some overtime I've been forced to do.
However, the trip was worth it.
First stop - The Bat Cave!
Well...sort of.
To get to the old Fredericksburg and Northern Railroad tunnel, we had a town to drive through. Luckenbach. You know the town...because you know the song. I'd driven through Luckenbach quite a few times...it's just off the main Farm to Market road in the area, and it's a neat little side trip...but I'd NEVER actually gotten out and looked around.
Amid license plates that said "Texas - The Lone Star State - Subject to Change" was an old old old post office/gift shop/general store. All looking like if you took the wrong step, you'd fall through the floor into a hidden basement underneath. Most of the store was just decoration ("Don't make us put 'Don't' signs up" and boxes of cereal and toothpaste from the early 30s), but the store itself is just gorgeous for antique lovers.
We continued onto the Bat Cave.
I've written about the Bat Cave many times, so to make a long story short, the cave is actually an abandonned rairoad tunnel from the 1940s tat bats have decided to take over. Same "family" of bats that took over the Congress Street bridge in Austin. Five million bats. And five million units of bat guano. Truly a site to behold.
From there, I took Dean to the Willow City Loop to see the wildflowers which virtually BLANKET that entire area. And when I mean blanket, I mean smothered. Parts of the drive are around the rim of an ancient ancient crater, and looking down into the crater, you could see the green grass, and HUGE patches of Blue that were nothing but huge fields of bluebonnets, maybe a foot deep. Dean thought it was seeded, I don't. It just grows insanely wild in this area for some reason.
Here's a bit of Bluebonnet trivia. Blue bonnets are NOT native to Texas. They were brough from Germany by the wife of the Aldverstien (I think that's how it's spelled) who spearheaded German immigration into Texas in the early 1800s/late 1700s. She brought a few with her for her garden, and all Bluebonnets in Texas trace back to that one garden in New Braunsfels.
Maybe a one week vacation from drqwing is JUST what I need. I've got a lot of Mame games to catch up on with this new processor. ;)
Bad news! I didn't get a lick of work done for my comics this week, and may end up not having comics this week due to some overtime I've been forced to do.
However, the trip was worth it.
First stop - The Bat Cave!
Well...sort of.
To get to the old Fredericksburg and Northern Railroad tunnel, we had a town to drive through. Luckenbach. You know the town...because you know the song. I'd driven through Luckenbach quite a few times...it's just off the main Farm to Market road in the area, and it's a neat little side trip...but I'd NEVER actually gotten out and looked around.
Amid license plates that said "Texas - The Lone Star State - Subject to Change" was an old old old post office/gift shop/general store. All looking like if you took the wrong step, you'd fall through the floor into a hidden basement underneath. Most of the store was just decoration ("Don't make us put 'Don't' signs up" and boxes of cereal and toothpaste from the early 30s), but the store itself is just gorgeous for antique lovers.
We continued onto the Bat Cave.
I've written about the Bat Cave many times, so to make a long story short, the cave is actually an abandonned rairoad tunnel from the 1940s tat bats have decided to take over. Same "family" of bats that took over the Congress Street bridge in Austin. Five million bats. And five million units of bat guano. Truly a site to behold.
From there, I took Dean to the Willow City Loop to see the wildflowers which virtually BLANKET that entire area. And when I mean blanket, I mean smothered. Parts of the drive are around the rim of an ancient ancient crater, and looking down into the crater, you could see the green grass, and HUGE patches of Blue that were nothing but huge fields of bluebonnets, maybe a foot deep. Dean thought it was seeded, I don't. It just grows insanely wild in this area for some reason.
Here's a bit of Bluebonnet trivia. Blue bonnets are NOT native to Texas. They were brough from Germany by the wife of the Aldverstien (I think that's how it's spelled) who spearheaded German immigration into Texas in the early 1800s/late 1700s. She brought a few with her for her garden, and all Bluebonnets in Texas trace back to that one garden in New Braunsfels.
Maybe a one week vacation from drqwing is JUST what I need. I've got a lot of Mame games to catch up on with this new processor. ;)
