Best Brisket and Stressful Travel

Like many of the RVing folks we know, we travel lots without reservations.  Most of the time it works perfectly.  We have a general idea where we’re going, where we’d like to stay and we just head in that direction.  If we decide to go another route, that’s no problem either as we just change.  That’s normally how it works for us.

Then there are others who make reservations.  They not only make reservations for the week or two ahead, they actually have reservations made months ahead of time.  If one thing changes, then everything must change.  That would not be possible for us since we change often.

A little record searching 

However, traveling in Texas during the month of March has definitely been out of the ordinary for us and we’ve hardly even started this month.  There are so many lakes and rivers and things to do in Texas and people want to take advantage of where they live.  This next week is spring break time and when that hits LOOK OUT.  All the parks fill up and prices go sky high.  The towns schedule special events such as rodeos to keep the folks from leaving.  So, if you go out of town, the parks are full and if you stay in town the parks are full.   If you didn't have foresight to make reservations for this time, you’re in a pickle.  I didn’t have foresight.  Needless to say, nothing has worked and I’ve been a very stressful camper.

 Wimberley

I suppose we could go from  one boondocking location along the main roads to another.  The sad part is we may just have to do that.  I  have a couple Wal-Marts a few miles apart targeted later this next week … just in case. However, the weather has been crappy and without sunshine those solar panels on the roof aren’t going to give much “juice”.  Thank goodness we have a good working generator because we may need it.

Other than spending hours and hours looking for a place to stay this next week, we have done a few others things.  We’ve visited Burnet, Marble Falls, Blanco, Austin and even Wimberley. 

In Wimberley we met up with friends Tina and Jeff for lunch.  They are hanging out in New Braunfels for a month.  Wimberley was the perfect meeting place.  It’s a cute little town.  The Wimberley Café sits right in the middle of town square.  It certainly was great seeing them again.

One thing we have been doing is eating our way across Texas.   Friday night we had the best brisket we’ve ever (EVER) had in our life and we’ve had lots of Texas smoked brisket!  We were actually  looking for another Mexican Restaurant when we spotted the Old 300 BBQ in Blanco.  The brisket was flavorful and so tender you could cut it with your fork but not overdone where it crumbled on your plate.

 Old 300 BBQ - Best Brisket EVER !

We’ve been trying to hang close to Austin since I’m meeting with cousins on Sunday.  We had hoped to move there but have finally accepted the fact, we won’t be.  We even got to the point we didn't care what the per night fee was. There’s no place to stay regardless of the price. We’ll just hang out a few more days where we’re at and probably move towards San Antonio later in the week.  We do have reservations there.  Terry has a doctor’s appointment in Portland shortly so we knew we needed reservations close to an airport for that.  I can say all this stress finding a place to stay will most definitely result in changes to our previously thought spring travel. 

’Tis life on the road.

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