Tuesday March 8, 2011 Off to Texas Hill Country

We were away by 10AM headed to Fredericksburg. We made a couple of telephone calls to secure campsites there and on the coast. I had also sent an email but was still waiting for replies. We were headed to Lady Bird Johnson Municipal Park in Fredericksburg  We stopped at McDonalds for coffee and check our email (free WiFi at Ronnies in the States). I had an email from a campground at Luckenback just outside of Fredericksburg that also had a campsite but it was also only available for 4 nights. Spring break starts in Texas this week so things are going to get busy in some places.

We stopped in Luckenbach but that campground was not for us(Willie Nelson was  no where to be seen) so we continued with plan A and went into Fredericksburg. We tried using the GPS to get to the park - should be easy - plug address into GPS and follow directions. We would have needed a 4x4 trailer to make it across the fields to get to the park where it was taking us. Stop the truck and get the Woodals guide out and follow the parks directions - no problem.

The site was a bit narrow but the site beside us emptied after the first night so it wasnt bad and it backed onto green space. No free internet but cable TV. Cable TV if you have the proper adapter - they only had a cable coming out of our cable box with a male connector - normaly it is a female connector. No tv the first night but next morning I picked one up at the office.

We spent the next few days touring the downtown and surrounding area. Lots of shops on the main street to spend money on on things you didn't know you needed.

We spent a morning at the Enchanted Rock just north of the town. We climbed the 425 foot hight batholith. (you can Google that one yourself for your educational experience of the day). It is one of the largest Batholiths in the US.

We took Newton with us on the hike but left Jacqi in the truck - it looked a bit much for a 14 year old dog.

You can see a long ways from the top of 425 foot tall batholith!