This week was pretty much a stay put kind of week. Two days at Lake Travis, two days in Fredericksburg and 3 days just east of Austin in the burbs. BUT, other than rest and relaxation, it was a BBQ week for us.
- Saturday: Buster's BBQ in Lakeway
- Sunday: Cooper's Pit BBQ in Llano - Fantastic!
- Monday: day off (Kris grilled a nice steak at the campground)
- Tuesday: David's Old Fashioned Pit BBQ in Fredericksburg
- Wednesday: Black's BBQ in Lockhart - Fantastic!
- Thursday: Louis Mueller BBQ in Taylor - Fantastic!
- Friday: day off (we shared a nice fish taco and thin crust Hawaiian pizza at California Pizza Kitchen)
Sunday we drove up to Llano for Cooper's Old Time Pit BBQ, waited in the long line but ate some of the best brisket, ribs and sausage you can imagine. Afterwards we went over to Burnet (pronounced "burn it") where the annual Blue Bonnet Festival was on. The feature of the afternoon was the "Wiener Dog Races"...
La Hacienda was a pretty nice RV park with an excellent pool and hot tub, but very windy and by Monday it was time to move on so off to Fredericksburg we went. On the way we stopped for a visit at the Wildseed Farm just outside Fredericksburg. What a beautiful place. Very nice to just wander around the gardens...
We booked into the Oakwood RV Resort just south of town. Nice spot with a huge pool but even though the temperatures were in the high eighties, it was "too early in the season to open the pool", never mind that the occupancy rate in the park was very high... :-(
We spent a day wandering around the lovely main street of Fredericksburg. The weather was pretty well perfect. The town is Very touristy and, in that way, quite similiar to places like Banff, Alberta.
The downside of our stay in Fredericksburg was that our neighbours, who showed up in a small Casita and we got chatting, turned out to be about the most unabashed bigots we have encountered on any of our trips; sad, but that's all we are going to say about that.
After Fredericksburg we headed back closer to Austin opting for the Oak Forest RV Park on the east side of Austin. That gave us much easier access to the BBQ capitals of Elgin, Taylor and Lockhart. Unfortunately the park was booked for the weekend so we could only stay there Wednesday and Thursday nights so we moved to the Lone Star RV Park in South Austin to end the week.
After dropping off the trailer at Oak Forest we headed south to Lockhart to give Black's a try. We recall on our trip two years ago we went to Smitty's and Kreutz Market in Lockhard so we still had to try Black's. Every bit as good as advertised and written about and, as a bonus, included some magnificent jackalopes in their taxidermy display ...
Later we returned to the RV park for a dip in the excellent pool. This is a nice park; well kept, quiet, very clean individual bathrooms, etc. Thursday we headed up to Taylor for a stop at Louie Mueller's. Again every bit as good as anticipated...
We ended the week by moving to the Lone Star park and going over to the rather large Barton Square and Sunset Valley shopping areas. That took up most of the day, but we finished with a dip in the park pool which, although it is quite near the freeway, was quite refreshing.
... and, of course, the accolades over the tap and faucet continued...
In light of the popular tv series Duck Dynasty, we thought Brian might become known as the "tap commander"... lots more laughs.
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