Jenn Boo-lari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

I had one last day in Texas, and I'd seen most everything I felt safe enough to see. So I asked the folks what THEY wanted to see. Dad wanted to see the Gillespie County schools. So we went, and saw as many as we could given the constraints of the day.

They'll do the ones they missed some other time.

Rural schools are fascinating. Imagine walking miles to your nearest school, all grades in one room, learning your three Rs, and if you were lucky more (only need the three Rs for working the fields).

Or being a school teacher. A young woman, coming out to the country to teach, staying in a small house for the week next to the school before heading back to town for the weekend. Often in the middle of nowhere.

It's a very different world we live in 140 years later.

Here are the Muesbach Creek School, and the Grapetown School and Teacherage.

The fairly well cared for ghost town of Morris Ranch. Once a thoroughbred horse raising powerhouse, now a collection of weathered but still standing buildings.

LBJ Ranch at the temporarily rushing Perdanales River.

Kitty Not For Sale

"Out in Luckenbach, Texas, ain't nobody feelin' no pain."

The good news is that I can get good fajitas tacos in Washington. They're just triple the price, and not convenient to get to-go....

The Last Whataburger. Still Life. 2023

Going out with a literal bang.....

Scratching as many itches as I can before I leave on Sunday.

Is it really that easy to get a writing job on Saturday Night Live?

Cooked tonight's Family Dinner!

Jambalaya!

Yes. More of this please.

Odd Branding, Volume 8439: Sanitary Tortilla

For those of you wanting to see the different Dairy Queen menu in Texas. I was craving pretzel breadsticks, but they didn't have them here. But they had steak fingers, so I didn't go away disappointed.

I hope that's readable....

Saturday's Texas Adventure Part Six. The final stops in Waring, Welfare and Boerne.

I'm so glad someone took the old gas station on the old highway in Boerne and did something with it. Looks like a cafe. I was always worried it'd be demolished

Missing my friends in the 90s...

Saturday's Texas Adventure Part Five

With a late start, the traffic jam at UTSA and the side trip through old Segovia I didn't get into Noxville until twilight, and Fredericksburg at sunset.

I talked about Fredericksburg on another post, and decided since it was night I'd just turn this into a night drive and put my night photo filter to the test.

Grabbed some pics of Grapetown and Bankersmith and the night setting led to some interesting photos. Around Mt Alamo, we kind of have the limits of how far the night photo mode could go.

I want to go through this door, but I know if I do, I'm going to be isekai'd into a wierd anime about the old Texas frontier.

You know what? I'm going in. Good chance of a gender swap in an anime...

Some art in Harper, TX.

The Secret Place was a small grassy area under large oaks next to a lake on the Devil's River. It was quiet You could only hear the wind, the birds and the water. It was isolated. It was private property, to be sure, but far enough away that unless you were visting the cemetery, no one would know you were there. And most of all isolated.

I'm revealing this place now cause I doubt I'll be coming back soon. Yes, there's the trans stuff going on in Texas, but honestly, I think more people knew about this place than me. WAAAY more No Tresspassing signs since I was here last. Probably got tired of my sitting out here thinking.

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