We arrived in Austin, Texas Thursday 26th of June in the late afternoon. Setup camp in a nice RV park only 10 miles outside of the downtown area. Went out for dinner and just relaxed the rest of the evening. Peter said he got the best night sleep yet since we left. The weather is not very hot and our coach temperature is a constant 76 degrees. Very comfortable.

Friday we had an easy morning and then set out to explore downtown Austin. This is a very funky city!

We needed to grocery shop so we went to Whole Foods. What a place!  We have never seen a Whole Foods as big as Austin's flagship store. You need a map to walk around.  Whole Foods had it's start in Austin and we found this old picture of the original store.

The first Whole Foods

Wow, free?

20 ft high wall of "living plants" Really beautiful!

Great way to get around Austin




There are food trucks everywhere with every kind of food you can imagine!

More great street food

Parking in Austin. Small rules!

                         

Great place for lunch

                   

Need I say more?

A condominium that was started and never completed has become the amazing Baylor Street Art Wall.
Crowded with photographers, tourists and the artists themselves, it's a great place to spend a couple of
hours.  The art is constantly changing so it's always a work in progress!

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

Arrived Llano, Tx

We arrived in Llano, Texas Friday 29th of June. Llano is a small, old, sleepy Texas town with a population of approximately 3300 residents.We are visiting Linda's old friend Paul and wife Kimberly. Great people! They live on a farm they purchased last year. Paul from Long Island, NY has become the farmer and Kimberly is a OR nurse in a nearby hospital. They have a beautiful house with goats and chickens and sometimes unwanted visitors like scorpions, snakes etc.

2 week old goats

Mom with her babies

Goat with attitude

We stayed at an RV park on the river which was beautiful!

Paul and Kimberly took us to a place called the Slab.  Slabs of concrete were layed over the dry river beds to get across.  They've since made it more of a one lane road but it's still under water at certain times of the year.  It was really gorgeous.  There is a lot of flint which the Apache indians made into knives, etc., and

the rock is beautiful granite.  It was an amazing day.

Voted Best Bar-B-Q in Texas several years in a row is Cooper's in Llano.  It really was fabulous!!

Another favorite watering hole is Castell general store in a sleepy little town, but don't be fooled. On the weekends 700 people come on a Friday or Saturday to drink beer and listen to music. Even our little car would have parking problems. A really cool place!

Next stop Carlsbad, NM.  Come back soon !