Get out of the road, sheep!
Day 2 of our Vacaching was a blast, at least for us.
We got a late start (for cachers) leaving the hotel around 8am.
The morning was overcast, breezy, and cool; it other words it was PERFECT!
We went SW out of town to do a road series, which is several caches along the same road. Caches must be at least 1/10 of a mile (528 feet) from any other caches.
Linda makes a friend
We drove past the series and caught a few strays on a beautiful paved road next to a limestone encrusted creek.
We grabbed 2 out by a winery and another at a BnB. This particular one was placed by Houston Control, a cacher from the Baytown area and a graduate of my old High School.
He visits the area every year and placed it in front of the BnB that belongs to a cousin.
Is this an abandoned hotel in the middle of nowhere? Sure looks like it!
Farther down the road we started the series and saw some fascinating landscape and architecture. Some of it left us wondering.
The series ran out on us but we picked up another one along the Pedernales River. Some great views!
I often stop to take pictures and forget that I’m caching.
The scenery is just so different from what I am used to.
As the series ran out we found ourselves less than a mile from Interstate 10 and Comfort, Tx.
Tim checks the coordinates on the banks of the Pedernales River.
I wasn’t planning on going that far south but this is what happens when you chase the needle.
Since it was noon, we started looking for a place to eat in Comfort.
What can you say about a town that not even a Sonic has found yet.
McDonalds-YES.
Dairy Queen-YES
Sonic-NO
We stopped at Double D Family Restaurant.
The Bat Cave also known as the "Tunnel". It was going to be a train tunnel.
Linda and I split a Chicken Fried Steak sandwich and medium onion rings.
It was really very, very good!
Then it was off again!
Our next series of caches took us to such memorable places like Grapetown, Cain, and the infamous Lukenbach, Tx.
You know the song don’t you?
The chorus to this Waylon Jennings song goes like this:
Downtown Luckenbach
Let’s go to Luckenbach Texas with Waylon and Willie and the boys
This successful life we’re livin’ got us feuding
like the Hatfield and McCoy’s
Between Hank Williams pain songs, Newberry’s train songs
and blue eyes cryin’ in the rain, out in Luckenbach Texas
ain’t nobody feelin’ no pain
I hope these buzzards weren't waiting for us. It was kind of eerie.
We also went out to the local “tunnel”.
It seems some folks wanted to build a railroad to San Antonio and were making a tunnel through the limestone hills.
This raised the cost of the project quite a bit. The train ran for several years but everytime the locomotive entered the tunnel, bits of limestone would fall from the top and the surrounding walls. They would also have to raise the windows to keep the smoke and fumes from entering the passenger cars. Today the tunnel is now a bat cave and every evening you can venture 10 miles out of town and watch the bats begin their nightly flight.
We went back to town rather early for cachers, around 4pm.
Some structure, possibly a church, poking above the trees.
We cleaned up and went into town for some German food, eating at The Brewery, though we don’t and didn’t drink.
The day was a good one.
We saw deer, sheep, alpaca’s, old school houses, ancient cemeteries, and beautiful countryside.
Later on in the evening we went back to the tunnel for the nightly exit of the bats.
There were around 25 others there.
At 8:43pm the bats began leaving the tunnel and circling round and round.
I counted 1, 2..45…2467…10,783…36,298…well…lots.
The TPWD personel said there were about 1 million bats but I couldn’t count them.
It makes me look forward to day 3.
For a moment I thought I was in Israel. We don't have rams back home.
These purple thistles are everywhere! Fields of them!
Prickly Pear (cactus) bloom
Another indigenous flower
Das not English! What are we shooting? Where is everybody else?
Where's the cache? Do you see the cache?
All I see is that old dried out cow-pie.
But the cache is UNDER the cow-pie. Now you understand why we do this sport, don't you?
Limestone rock fences like this one stretch on and on and on...
...and on and on and on. How long do you think it took to build this?
The area has many operating winery's.
The road keeps on going and so will we!
One last thing.
The GPS will keep a track of where I traveled during the day.
It is below. I think it looks like Jesus! Should I try to sell it on Ebay?
Maybe give it a name like GPS-sus?
This is our GPS track for Tuesday. We logged 40 caches!
Morning Thought with Pastor Tim 
I L-O-V-E Hill Country…. It is great for picture taking obviously. I’ve had dinner at the Brewery once. It was good. Did they have a outdoor Polka Band playing last night?
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