Zipping through Texas

Is the best way to get across Texas on our way home, to take the shortest distance route?


No way!  That would be no fun
nor adventurous. 

So when we entered Texas near El Paso on the west, we first stopped for lunch just north of the city at Flautas y Paleteria.  This was a very Mexican restaurant, and wow were the flautas good.  In case you don't know, a flauta is a skinny fried rolled delicacy filled with a well seasoned meat, and served with guacamole, sour cream, and lots of salad ingredients.  And then there were the drinks where the server scooped the drink cup into a mix of ice and beverage.  All good.

Then we headed to Hueco Tanks (see prior post).  Then further south to Marfa for an unusual small town that has done an excellent job of PR.  First we stopped at the Prada store set 18 miles north of town.  Then on to downtown for lunch at a food truck serving barbeque falafel wraps.  And finally to the Chianti Foundation where we gazed at and through the concrete "sculptures" by Donald Judd.

 

For fun? we stopped at the Junction, TX city park and boon docked for the night.  Highly rated as a no cost stop along the Interstate; we wouldn't agree, but ok for the night.

The next morning we headed to Austin and spent a few hours at the LBJ Library.  A very impressive presidential museum and library. Recently this museum was redone to have less stress on the Vietnam War, and more emphasis on Johnson's War on Poverty, Civil Rights Act, and the many other forward thinking government social programs (including Medicare).  LBJ knew how to work with congress to get his agenda passed.

Waco was next on our route, but we discovered the Dr. Pepper Museum was closed for renovation.............but we did camp at a very nice ACE campground on a large dammed lake (of course).

We finally exited the state at Texarkana on the eastern border.  Whew!!