Saturday, November 16, 2013

Just Roaming Around Back Roads On A Saturday

What do you know, we found something to do today after all and even had a pleasant afternoon surprise.  We started out on a foggy morning and headed about 20 miles to the tiny town of Onalaska, Texas.  Population 1764.  Onalaska is by Lake Livingston  but it was so foggy we couldn’t see any of the lake.  Below is the fog and a picture of what it looked like when we were at the lake a couple of weeks ago. We headed that way to try a new place for breakfast that we were told was good.  Instead we found a place called Jerry’s.  Just an old small building fixed up rather cute on the inside.  A place where swamp boats, trucks (oops, we have a truck!), & camouflage hats fit right in. Their Idea of Home Fries is frozen bits out of a bag rather than home made like the name implies.  I will say the smoked bacon was great and Doug really liked the gravy.

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Since we were out and like to avoid cabin fever, we took a drive around the lake and explored a few back roads. It started to clear up some so we headed on out to the dam.  The spillway was really flowing when we were out there a few weeks ago but  today only a little was flowing. Pelicans love that place. And I love pelicans!  The pelicans are sitting on the dry part of the spillway.  They just wait for the rushing water to churn up fish.  What a life! 

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Lunch was sure unique!  Texas has a list of what they rate as the top 50 Bar-B-Q places .  One is right in Livingston, TX, called the Hitch-n-Post.  Back road fine dining at it’s best? Or maybe not!  A colorful place where you eat on a covered porch with all kinds of junk surrounding you, no chair or table matches, & odds and ends even are on the tables. Our fine china was designer Styrofoam and plastic silverware.  I guess you could say this was a fast food place but I am still not sure how to describe it! I had pork ribs that were fair but the flavor was one I had never tasted before.  Hope that’s not a bad sign!  Doug had brisket and it was good.  But overall, not a place we would return to. They didn’t ask for our vote so we are marking this one off.  The place sure was popular though.

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The surprise I said we had was on the way back to the RV.  A bunch of horse trailers and horses were outside the small arena up the road.  We stopped by to see what was going on.  It was a NBRA event.  Barrel Racing!  My favorite event at the rodeo! My close friends and family know I love rodeos.  It was free and will continue tomorrow.  Soooo….since I already had my camera, guess what? I am clicking away to my hearts content!  It was a covered arena but I still haven’t mastered the skill of taking pictures in such low lighting. Thank goodness for photo enhancement programs! It sure was fun to be right up close to watch.  There sure were some beautiful horses!  I might just have to slip back up there tomorrow! 

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