On a rainy Tuesday morning, we headed to Goliad, Texas for a bowl of soup. Normally, it would take a decadent chocolate dessert to lure us on to a slick highway for a two-and-a-half hour trek, but the Blue Quail Deli’s cream of jalapeno soup …
Seems that small Texas towns close early on Sundays. It’s actually a nice thing when you think of all those shop and restaurant workers enjoying dinner with their families. When you’re a hungry traveler, it can be a huge problem. As we drove from one end of Salado, Texas to the other, we couldn’t help but notice two things: the town was very charming and it was deserted.
Even the bed and breakfast hotel where we hoped to stay, didn’t answer their door or their telephone. (We should have called ahead.) Continue reading Shopping Salado, Texas
Whenever John Wayne met the stagecoach, you knew there had to be a beautiful woman on board. She’d have blond curls, starched crinolines, and a matched set of carpetbags. She always looked as if she had arrived in town via air-conditioned limo. An afternoon at …