Day 275

We got up about 8 (no alarm).  The hotel had a breakfast with waffle machines.  We went down separately so that the dog wouldn't freak out being left alone.

There's lots of cool stuff in Waco - Dr. Pepper museum, the Fixer Upper place, museums at Baylor, and the Texas Rangers museum.  Unfortunately we couldn't go to any with the dog.  So we decided to drive home the long way.  We could see parts of Texas we hadn't been in, and we'd avoid the traffic on I35.

We went west from Texas to Lampasas.  It was a nice drive through flat Texas into the transition into the hill country.  Some of it was divided highway and some was two lane.  The speed limits were 70 or 75 (the two lane was 75).  We passed through a small town (Gatesville?) that had a courthouse square with a lot of cool old buildings and a really neat old courthouse.

At Lampasas we decided to take 281 south to Burnett and Marble Falls.  Burnett wasn't very interesting and we drove right through it.

Marble Falls was much better.  We stopped at a pottery/yard sculpture/Texas decor place.  It was really neat.  Also they let Lucy in.  We ended up buying a new cow hide to replace the one in the bedroom that Lucy ate.  We also bought a rabbit sculpture for Patty and a really cool wrought iron pink flamingo.

We need to go back to Marble Falls.  It has some other interesting stores and a neat looking park by the lake.  We didn't stop there because the water quality is going to suck.

The next stop was Johnson City.  I wanted to see that yard sculpture place that we always drove buy.  It was OK, but we didn't see anything we really wanted to buy.

From there it was time to go home.  We did stop at the fields in Dripping Springs so that the dog could run.  She did 12 really long retrieves.  It was 94, but cloudy.  I think that helped her.

When we got home I unpacked everything and put up the new flamingo.

Now we are hiding out from the 99 degree heat.  I expect that this evening will be more reading and TV.