On the road again....................

On Wednesday, we began what will turn out to be about a 3 week road trip. Eventually, we will end up attending a reception for our daugher, Deanne, on June 8 in Little Rock, AR. After getting her MD and PHD in medicine from The Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC, she began a 5 year medical residency in Little Rock as an ENT Surgeon. That five years is up on July 1, and she will be moving on to a private practice someplace.

Between now and June 8, we plan to camp with the South Texas Boomers in Stonewall, TX (about 10 miles East of Fredericksburg) for the weekend. They are having a Texas Hold'em tournament, and I plan to participate. On Sunday, we will leave Stonewall, and head for Red Bay, AL to visit the Tiffin Allegro plant. We want to see what the '08 Allegro Bus will look like. They are making them now, but won't have the brochures out for a couple of more months. We plan to be there about 3--5 days, and then we plan to visit either Nashville, TN or the casinos in Tunica, MS before heading to Little Rock.

We left Victoria a couple of days early to camp at the Blanco State Park in Blanco, TX, and to visit Fredericksburg. We also wanted to celebrate the birthday of one of Patsy's best friends, Char Garvelli, with her husband Joe, who live near Blanco. We wanted to find a nice restaurant, and we found the 'Silver "K" Restaurant' in Johnson City on the internet. It turned out to be a nice place with good food. Here's a couple of pictures at the restaurant:

As we rode around Johnson City, we found a sculpture on the side of the highway. It turned out to be an 'billboard' for a "Sculpture Ranch" five miles down the road. After dinner, we drove down the road and found the 'ranch'. There was a sign at the gate that stated that it closed at 6:00pm, and we were there at about 7:00pm. We drove in a little way, anyhow, and quickly determined that the best scuplture was the 'billboard'!! Here it is:

We spent the night in site 13 of the Blanco State Park. We purchased the $60 annual pass which saves us the $4 per person charge every time that we go into a park. We expect it will pay for itself this summer. The park was small, but very nice. Here is a picture of a dam on the Blanco river inside the park: