Woke
up super early and drove two hours west into the Hill Country to a town called Frederiksburg. birth place of THE LEGEND that is WW2 CINCPAC Chester Nimitz a
big museum complex where Ellie broke a new record by tolerating THREE hours of
fatherly wandering through the IKEA-like maze of Pacific War history. Then over
to Tooties pies for a coffee and a slice of Texas pecan pie! Back into the thick of it
at the Nimitz family hotel for Chester's
own story, the inevitable gift shop tour and back to the car.
Drove
east for an hour & some to a backwater town called Driftwood and
a buzzy popular shed-restaurant called Salt Lick BBQ, for an over fill of
sweetened BBQ meat (eleanor note: two bites of the stuff gave me cardiac
arrest) and token side serves of beans and potato. We drove back to UT where
cheapskate father found a cheaper park, only half a mile's walk from the football
stadium! Dressed in token burnt orange, we mixed with the vast gathering heard of
orange dressed Longhorns fans (UT college football team) and entered a huge stadium to watch a
match with almost 100,000 others. The vast majority wore bright orange caps tee
shirts and jackets, a collection of songs and arm and hand gestures to show
their longhorn fan credibility. The match went from just before sunset for
three hours, to finish under floodlights with lots of brass band and yeehaw
entertainment and ads on the big video screen. UT won 43-0 against Kansas, so it
looked
more like a training match than a big event!
Long
walk back to the car (thanks dad) and a good sleep back at the motel.
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