Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

Some sit down restaurant food, my first since coming to Texas. And likely my last given some of the looks I got at the restaurant. Thankful it was to go and that person was leaving.

I finally got some catfish. Folks got chicken fried steak. I miss southern cooking. The jerks, not so much. Just wish there weren't so many of them and things weren't so bad that I need to worry about them.

THE EYE WATCHES. ALWAYS WATCHING.

Okay, Texas, now you're just showing off.

What's neat about D'Hanis is that there is a very large brick company just outside of the town, and you can find D'Hanis bright red brick all over the Hill Country and this part of the "coastal plains." I love seeing how everything in "New D'Hanis" is bright red.

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Our next stop was Old and New D'Hanis. A tiny town founded in 1847, and 175 years later is slightly less tiny, mostly because the townsite moved a mile over when the railroad bypassed the old town, and the old town never went away.

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Hondo, Texas - not a ghost town but a pretty thriving little place. But I get the feeling that Radio Shack is probably a ghost town. And my dad's dentist was on this hotel back in the day.

A lot of these trips aren't actually in the Hill Country, but in my dad's and his brothers' stomping grounds, on the southern edge of the Hill Country.

Get a load of that sign. It caused a lot of commotion when it went up in the 40s. They added a "please" and that made everyone happier.

The 1881 ghost town of Dunlay. It was part of the railroad. Not much else to it, honestly. Oh wait, my uncle walked home seventeen miles from here after his truck broke down. So there was a little more to tell.

Where I am now. Also feeling 100% better!

I don't know if this is a San Antonio thing, or a Texas thing, but my goodness, there are a LOT of personal injury commercials on TV out here.