Tuesday 20th November- Austin to Del Rio

It was hard leaving our friends in Austin but we have places to go and things to see and in view of the Thanksgiving Holidays it was necessary to book Hotels in advance and so with three nights of Hotels booked and paid for, the offer to stay for Thanksgiving had to be rejected this time. Oh yes we shall be back to Austin as there is an awful lot to see and do.

As before we took the main roads rather than the Interstate (Motorways to you) and passed through some great looking towns called Bertram and Llano both of which need to be revisited. We also passed by the Buchanan Dam which is extremely large and very impressive. Our target was to reach Fredericksburg where we had visited once before and is a German Immigrant town like New Braunfels but much, much nicer. When we visited their last time it was wet and grey and nobody on the streets. This time it was blue and very warm and their were loads of tourists wandering around. We stopped for a coffee and a cake and took some photos and then left there about one pm and stopped one hour later for a 'leftover from yesterdays lunch' lunch by the side of the road at a picnic area overlooking a stream. Suddenly we were approached by some wasps and Jennifer thought she had been stung as it had gone up the trouser leg of her jeans and she thumped it and it fell down and then perished under the full weight of her foot.
The journey so far had been really nice with hills and trees turning to an Autumn shade and together with some rather nice ranch houses, and ranches of course, it was a very pleasant drive. 
After a while the nice bits peter'ed out and it became flat with some undulation and not to many trees but never mind we are en route to a nice place. We located our Hotel in Del Rio and decided that we would eat out and located not a bad steak house where we enjoyed a New York strip and a glass of wine and then back to the Hotel for another glass of wine provided free by the Hotel in their bar.
We then did some blogging and emailing etc and then a bit late to bed perhaps.