July 1, 2012 – Luling, TX—on the road west.

We are back in the Shoe Box—moving from 1/2 acre lot with 1100 sq. foot house to living in 10 1/2 feet again.  We left Livingston, TX, this morning and stopped in Luling, TX, at a nice Passport America/Escapees discount park called RiversBend RV Park.  
We spent the last two weeks getting ready to leave.  Larry has a doctor appointment on July 19, 2012 in Antioch, CA—2000 miles from Livingston. 
This is one reason why it took so long to finish up the chores and pack the camper.  This is NOT how you want your windows to look like first thing in the morning:

The reason you can’t see the trees—or the forest—is because of HIGH humidity outside.  The house is so much cooler at 72 degrees at 7 a.m. than the outside air that the windows fog up on the outside.  Not a good sign when you have to work outside.
We forget how much work it takes to close down a hou and yard for several months.  We turn off the water as the last thing done before we leave—capping 14 days of chores—and hot sweaty work. 
We stopped here in Luling, TX to rest up for the ride though San Antonio, TX,  tomorrow morning.  As we arrived at noon, we had time to explore Luling. 
I have heard this is the BEST BBQ place in the country, but alas, we have consumed our sodium allotment to last us for the next few days and the refrigerator and freezer are full—so no ribs this trip.

The place was packed!  Across the street, I didn’t find many shoppers in the Farmer’s Market in the 90-plus heat.  I bought some Luling home-grown tomatoes as Larry’s red globes just never developed the strong tomato flavor we expected.  Hope these are better.  Notice all the watermelons for sale:

Luling is home to the Watermelon Thump festival in June.  The locals are very proud of their watermelons.  We didn’t have room for one of those either.  We are packed!
We made time to visit the the Zedler Mill Museum and Park , located on the banks of the San Marco River–a real gem in downtown Luling.


We noticed most of the visitors were enjoying the San Marco River more than the museum:

The drop-off is about 20 feet for the old mill way.  This view was a bit scary as there aren’t any fences or barriers to the drop off where the old wheel was located:

From down stream looking back at the mill dam.


We finished our visit to Luling with a visit to DQ for a Blizzard treat.  Yum Yum.

Tomorrow we will pass around San Antonio on Loop 1604 and stop in either Ozona or Fort Stockton, depending on the heat and our tiredness level, smile.