Today was a travel day and in that vein we took a little side trip. We had about 400 miles to go to get to our next location but in the way was a chance to do a little tourist stuff…
First off this morning we visited the Missions of San Antonio. They are National parks and one of our group has a National Parks passport book that he wanted to get stamped… ok that was fine with me but I had no idea just how neat these missions would be… I have been to several old missions in New Mexico and other areas but these are missions that are still , to some degree, in use. The Main church is still an operational church, although much of the mission is the national park… and it was free…
There was even a young lady getting pictures taken for her wedding… they were hustled all over the grounds to get the proper background for just the right picture…
Once we got back on the road we headed west on I-10 to a small town “Comfort” and decided it was about lunch so why not..
I had some really good chicken tortilla soup and a turkey sandwich…
In this small town of “Comfort” they do have a small problem and have put up signs for that…
We were busy reading all the signs of history and how old things were then came on this one…
Figuring that was enough of this stop, we made the run from there up through some more of the hill country… through Fredericksburg, which I really would like to go back so I can look around but we were already late…
On the way we passed through a small town that had two rather large cemetery’s on the south end,
and another on the north end and just outside town there was a ranch named the
“Buzzards Roost”… for which we saw plenty of buzzards on both sides of town… so with a town of maybe a 1000 people and more dead than living???? and all the buzzards, we did not have a warm and fuzzy feeling about that town so kept right on moving, least someone ore something might figure us for plot candidates???
We made it to the wonderful West Texas towns of Midland and Odessa about 6pm and got ourselves unloaded and prepared to get back to work in the morning… damn those 4 letter words..
REX