Bastrop, Texas

Sunday, November 08, 2009 – to Bastrop , Texas

Heading south on I-35, we stopped for gas at the Flying J - $2.42 a gallon. The rest of the trip was on Rt. 77 south – all nice, rural Texas highways. We saw long horned cattle in the fields and a huge pecan grove.

Bastrop was founded in 1837 and Main St is on the Colorado River! We’re camping at Bastrop State Park and using our new Bluebonnet State Park Passes. We have full hookup at our pull-thru site. This park has a nine hole golf course and a huge swimming pool. It rained this afternoon and so we just stayed in and took it easy.

Monday, November 09, 2009 – Bastrop, TX- nice day in the 60’s

Don treated us out to breakfast this morning. The historic downtown area has a cute, old place called “Maxine’s on Main “. I had my first breakfast taco since last winter and Don had the special – eggs, sausage, toast & potato fries -$3.99. Our waitress was young and very nice.

We found the new Best Buy and Don bought a small TV so that we can see the news, but the antenna wouldn’t pick up the signal here in the park.

The Bastrop Library is new and very inviting. We spent time on-line – catching up.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 – Bastrop, TX

A beautiful day – high 76 degrees. Bastrop State Park was built by the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) back in 1936 as part of FDR’s recovery plan from the Great Depression. They built the cabins using local red sandstone rock and hand crafted much of the furniture that is still in use today. You can rent these rustic, but timeless cabins. I enjoyed walking around and taking photos of them. We drove the perimeter of the 3,550 acres thinking about the young men that built it without modern machinery. Amazing!

We took the small TV back to Best Buy for a refund – and then made a short trip to Wal-Mart.

We noticed lots of cars (mostly trucks here in Texas) at the Roadhouse Hamburger eatery and thought we’d give it a try for lunch. The food was very good and as “everything’s bigger in Texas” – we should have split one.

We walked off some of it by touring the Old Town Main St.. Lock Drug is an 19^th century – still operating – drug store and has an old fashioned ice cream parlor. I also took photos of along the Main St. and we bought apple fritters at the bakery. A very enjoyable town.