Road trip from Austin

Another road trip for you local readers, or for you who might visit Central Texas:

This trip was easy to do in one day and super fun.

We headed from Austin up to West, Texas (a city named West!) - a Czech community - to  The Village Bakery - the oldest kolache shop in the area (about 1 1/2 hours north of Austin) And there were so many choices of meat or fruit kolaches - so we tried one of each!  We also shopped at a few of the antique stores around the square (and at a True Value Hardware!), and then drove out to see the site of the explosion in West a few years back.  A great playground built by the firemen, in honor of those who lost their lives, was new near the site.

From West, we drove through several small towns including Leroy, Mart (terrible roads!) where we enjoyed DQ and realized it was the home of a famous UT football player Quan Cosby.  Mart was not a very cute town, but super friendly people were there!  And the park there, which on the internet stated it was a great place, was anything but!  But that's the beauty of road trips...finding and discovering whatever lies up ahead, even if it's comical or pitiful...

Next, we drove through Riesel, and onto Perry, where we stopped at a picturesque church site - Perry United Methodist - for a quick car nap - except I read a book I had brought while Jon slept. :)  

After that was Marlin, where we hung out downtown a bit, peeking in the windows of an old Hilton hotel (where the lobby is still left as it was - spooky!), running our hands under a hot mineral water fountain near the Chamber of Commerce, and visiting an old theater.  Marlin has history!

On to Lott, and Cedar Springs, and finally to Cameron, Texas.  We had printed out histories on these tiny towns from texasescapes.com.  And the green fields and flowers were spectacular this weekend!

In Cameron we stopped to eat Mexican food at Los Comales - Jon enjoyed his dinner, but mine was just okay - the chips and salsa were great - and it was cheap!  We then found a gorgeous park with a cool old bridge and a small lake in the middle where we went for a good long walk.  This was the highlight of the trip in my opinion!  And I've included one of the murals from the walls in the historic district.

We then headed home.  This was a great trip, not too much driving, and lots to see and enjoy!