Traveling the back roads of Texas

On Friday, we traveled from the Pathdrummer Homestead to Lake Jackson, TX where we were able to spend some time with some our favorite members of our family. We relaxed and hung out, chatted about nothing and everything and generally lazed around for 2 whole days. It felt pretty darn good! 

Today we traveled from Lake Jackson to Midland, TX. We went on a road called the Devil's Backbone. It was a gorgeous ride up in the clouds overlooking beautiful valleys on both sides of the road. We pulled into the overlook area and saw this beautiful tree that stood in front of a fence that had crosses hanging all over it. We stopped and took one photo and then went on because there was a family there scattering ashes of a loved one and we didn't want to intrude on them.  After leaving the picnic area, I looked up information on this beautiful road and found this awesome article on the ghosts of the Devil's Backbone.   reportingtexas.com/devils-backbone-ghosts-hunting/  

Continuing on, we realized that we would be passing by Luckenbach, texas. We hadn't been here in a few years so thought we would take a little time to stretch our legs and see if anything had changed. We drove up in the heat of the day and wandered around a bit, through the old post office that is now a store, into the courtyard where there was a gentleman singing and playing a guitar, and listened to the roosters crowing. It was pretty much the same as when we were there on our last visit and the visit before that, however we enjoyed ourselves for a little while and then headed on out toward Midland.

For the rest of the day, we wandered the small towns and back roads of Texas and enjoyed seeing only a car or two every few hours. It was a relaxing ride through the Texas Hill Country. We always enjoy visiting here. :) One of the best parts of the whole day was visiting Reagan County, Texas. It was a little strange to see my last name plastered everywhere.