MEDINA LAKE TT PRESERVE NEAR PIPE CITY, TX 3/10-14/11

Drove through beautiful hill country of Texas to Medina Lake TT where we planned to stay and sit a few days.

The preserve entrance is a little less ostentatious that LBJ's ranch, but very welcoming.

We immediately set up camp in a cedar grove next to Median Lake, then went for a relaxing walk on the shores.  Ann collected lots of white freshwater clam shells and found what appeared to be a sharks tooth (?????).

There are many areas here that remind us of Loab State Park in Oregon and brought back memories of years of Bringhurst, Cowley, Shorland, Gosson, Huff and Waggener monkeys in the trees there.

This park in infested with many, many deer.  They are very un-timid and stand around as if they are waiting for you to feed them.  This one stood outside our trailer door for 10 minutes, waiting.  When you walk outside, they come right up to you and look at you as if to say, "Well, what you got for me?"

 

 Even the rabbits here think we are here to serve them!!

The laundromat here on the preserve looks like the wash house on a plantation.  There is a large 2 story white house with a swimming pool right out front of where we sit on the front porch of the laundry room, reading e-mails as we wait for the laundry to finish.  Nice!!

We have been blessed with warm and albeit somewhat muggy weather.  We sleep with just a sheet mostly!

On  March 11 we took the whole day and drove to San Antonio, where we toured the Alamo.  It was another place that was familiar to us because of history.  Just imagine.  We are standing right where Glen Beck stood a year or so ago as he headed up a Tea Party rally.  Wow!!  A famous place!! And we are here!!!

The famous LIBERTY WELL!!!!!!  The history here is overwhelming!!

The inspiration for Ronald McDonald's Golden Arches!!!

Then we later went down to the place where Michael Jackson got his ideas for his later famous dance move, "THE RIVER WALK"!!!

We did stop for lunch along the River Walk at a sidewalk cafe.  It was great fu to watch the boats, walkers and birds go by.

Actually, the birds did not "go" by.  They stayed and looked at us.  They must have had lessons from the deer!!!   We gave in to their sorry faced looks and fed them right out of our hands.

Ever heard of hen pecked?  I wonder if it is anything like pigeon pecked???

...... and the band played on!  (As long as you gave them $10.00!!!!)

After a late lunch/early dinner we waddled our full little tummies down the River Walk for another hour or so and then headed back towards our truck.  We were amazed at how beautiful the Alamo was when lit up at night!

Wayne tried to strike up a conversation with someone he thought he recognized.  The man tended to not be interested in him and even leaned away from him.  Wayne does have bad breath sometimes after eating Mexican food!!

The touristy horse and carriages were beautiful as they rolled down the street and even as they waited for customers.

It was a long and beautiful day we spent together!

The next day, on the 12th, we headed back to San Antonio to go to the temple and guess what Wayne found????

Two of them!!

The San Antonio Texas Temple is just beautiful!  It is patterned after the Twin Falls Idaho Temple, but has a lot more stained glass and is perched upon a hill like the Oakland California Temple.  We were inside about three hours.

Then we came out and walked around the outside.

One of the many windows.  They are much more beautiful from the inside out, with the sun shining through them!

As we were leaving Wayne got in a conversation with a gentleman that told us that "You haven't been to Texas if you haven't eaten at Rudy's Bar-B-Q!!"  So he told us where the nearest one was and off we went!

Just so happens, he directed us to the original store in a chain of 29 restaurants.

It was an experience just to get in the place and be served!  The food was great, though a little spendy.

You could dine in or out on the patio.  We chose inside and found the place to be like a big family gathering.  The guys at the table behind Wayne were very friendly and we conversed with them through the whole eating experience.  We decided that this was a place we would like to take our kids someday!!

  

Anyway, on the 12th we once again got home late and with very full bellies!

The 13th and 14th we just stayed around the preserve, relaxed, read, typed, walked and visited.  We needed the break!  Too much sight seeing makes for tired old people!  We love our Thousand Trails campgrounds where we can sit and relax amongst other full time RV'ers.

We leave here on the March 15th.