Monday, January 14, 2008

Exploring around Hondo

Thursday: Drove to Uvalde where there was a jeep dealership and had a servicing done. Uvalde is a city at the intersection of the two longest highways in Texas. It was once a center of the area. Their courthouse



An old Opera building ( 1916 ).


It took about an hour, then we headed north and visited Garner State Park. (29.59511, 99.71367). The park was empty but for a few, but you could tell that in the summer the place was ridiculously busy. The second park that we had planned to visit was closed for the hunt. Parks here monitor their animal populations, and when a species becomes too plentiful, they have a hunt for a fixed time, and a fixed number of animals, at a cost to the hunter. So we toured the hill country, and returned to our park to housekeeping tasks.