Texas Question for Bird

[HR_Mutt]

<font color=blue>look towards the mountains and see strange lights.Nobody has been able to determine the source.</font color=blue>
Read this and remembered a post about adding lights to rops. Working late Bird?/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
regards
Mutt

 

[RBManufacturing]

Thanks ErnieB,
Rick

Rick Hedgecock
R&B Manufacturing
http://www.tiltmeter.com
(816)587-9814

 

[jinman]

At the risk of being called a spokesman for the Texas Tourist Bureau, here is another link to a magazine about Texas called Texas Highways. There is lots of info in their website, including a recipe for chicken fried steak with cream gravy.

Texas Higways

JimI

 

[BobT]

Alan L., Bird, Glenmac, ErnieB, & all the others,

THANKS again for all the excellent tips and insights about Texas Hill Country. I am going to spend some time online and find some specific areas to visit on my next drive thru. You guys are a kind of mini-Texas Chamber of Commerce. Sounds like a great area! Thanks again.

BobT.
A Indiana Boy

 

[Bird]

Rick, there's lots of options to get from KC to Sealy; guess it depends on how much time you have. For time, I'd just take I-35 to Dallas, I-45 to Houston, and west on I-10, but if I wasn't in any hurry, I'd take US-71 from KC to Texarkana and US-59 to Houston. In either case, though, I'd turn west on 1960 north of Houston and go around that big town instead of through it. Of course, if I really had lots of time, I might go from KC down around Branson, and then down SH-7 through Arkansas to Hot Springs; mighty pretty scenic drive although it's been a long time since I took that route.

Bird

 

[Bird]

Yep, Ernie, the deer do tend to be mighty small. I've heard that attributed to hunters killing off the biggest and best trophies and leaving the runts to breed, and I've also heard it attributed to over populations of deer, and I've heard it attibuted to climate and food sources, and of course, I sure don't know which is right or whether it's a combination of those factors.

I'd heard that Rickenbacker had a ranch somewhere there, but don't know where or anything at all about it.

The one time I was at the Y-O and met Charles Schriener III (everyone called him "Charlie three"), he seemed like one heck of a nice guy. Of course, when we turned off the highway into the ranch, it 8 miles of rough gravel (more of a trail than a road) back to the main ranchhouse./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Bird

 

[Bird]

Very nice description, GlennT. <font color=blue>drive in the Medina, Bandera area</font color=blue> I spent 3 weeks in Medina, nice city owned RV park in a bend of the river, in January '94. Deer came down out of the hills into the park every evening. The city owned the gas company and I did a leakage survey for the whole town in that 3 weeks.

Bird

 

[RBManufacturing]

Hi Bird,
As slow as things have been here, I will probably have lots
of time. The wife and daughter just got back from Branson.
I had to work. Maybe next time. Thanks, Rick

Rick Hedgecock
R&B Manufacturing
http://www.tiltmeter.com
(816)587-9814

 

[Bird]

Rick, it's been a few years since I was down US-59 south of I-20, but I always did enjoy that drive. Of course, you have quite a few little towns with traffic lights to pass through, but there's no shortage of services available, food, fuel, & lodging. And if you should happen to take I-45 between Dallas and Houston going either direction, let me know when and I'll sure buy your dinner in Corsicana (I live about 20 miles west of Corsicana). In fact, we'd be glad for you to stop off for the night with us. We've got a spare bedroom.

Bird

 

[GlennT]

Bird: Medina, Bandera, Mason, Harper, Llano, Junction, etc. They're all struggling. There's not much money to be made in ranching--especially after recent droughts, so these towns are concentrating on attracting retirees and tourists. Medina is trying to dress up it's main street and offer some special events. My wife and I attended their annual antique tractor show a couple of weeks ago and their annual apple fest attracts substantial numbers of people from Austin and San Antonio. As far as I can tell, the big money is being made by developers in the Hill Country. More and more ranches are being split up into acreages which sell for awe-inspiring prices. A constant problem is water, of course. The aquifer cannot support more wells--many of them being used to water flowers, bushes and large plots of grass. The vineyards and the peach and pecan orchards require substantial amounts of water and more and more farmers are installing large and expensive irrigation systems. I wonder how it will all turn out?