Archive: Out and About

Fuel City Tacos

Posted on: Apr 13, 2014        In: Out and About        With: No comments
Number Two Son’s sweet wife Jenny told us about Fuel City Tacos sometime ago.  It seems that regularly someone from the hospital will make a “taco run” to Fuel City for their famous tacos, and she proclaimed them, “very good.” More than once we missed the exit to get to this fueling station/taco stand.  Oh, […]

Sugar and Spice Bakery

Posted on: Apr 11, 2014        In: Out and About        With: No comments
This is another recommendation from MarshaChristmas.  I do love knowing about her comings and goings.  She is always having so much fun.  Around the corner from the Kolache Station Bakery is another little bakery/restaurant called Sugar and Spice Bakery. (One can’t help but finish the phrase – “and everything nice”.  It is nice. (I know […]

Pollo Tropical

Posted on: Apr 9, 2014        In: Out and About        With: No comments
Number One Son suggested a new restaurant to try called Pollo Tropical.  Since it was a new restaurant, it had been getting reviews in the press. Be still my heart!  The cool sea breeze blue walls with white trim certainly reminded me of the tropics.  How wonderful to drive up to something so pretty.  I […]

Gonzales, Texas

Posted on: Apr 8, 2014        In: Out and About        With: No comments
Gonzales, Texas is a historic town on the Independence Trail.  Not only did it have the Jail Museum and the Gonzales Food Market, it also had beautiful homes and an interesting museum. Be still my heart!  Isn’t this the most gorgeous courthouse!  The red brick with white limestone trim was built in 1896.  It is […]

Gonzales Food Market – Great BBQ

Posted on: Apr 6, 2014        In: Out and About        With: No comments
When the clerk at the hotel in Victoria heard we were headed to Gonzales, he said we HAD to eat at the Food Market in downtown Gonzales.  “The best sausage I have ever eaten,” he proclaimed.  Yea!  We love recommendations. There it was – right on the historic square of Gonzales, Texas.  We could smell […]

Kolache Station Bakery – Plano, Texas

Posted on: Apr 3, 2014        In: Out and About        With: No comments
I LOVE to get recommendations from my ultimate cheerleader MarshaChristmas.  She is a wonderful support to me and Lanabird.  MarshaChristmas gets out and about more than anybody I know, and she knows when places are good.  Recently she emailed me with not one but three suggestions of places I might like to try.  All three […]

Old Jail Museum – Gonzales, Texas

Posted on: Apr 1, 2014        In: Out and About        With: No comments
One of the most unusual museums we have ever visited was the Old Jail Museum in Gonzales, Texas.  This jail was built in 1887, and it was used until 1975 – unbelievable. The Chamber of Commerce and the Gonzales Visitor Center are located on the ground floor of the Old Jail Museum.  We went to […]

Presidio La Bahia

Posted on: Mar 27, 2014        In: Out and About        With: No comments
Presidio La Bahia (Fort by the Bay) is the WORLD’S finest example of a Spanish frontier fort.  It has all the pedigrees – National Historic Site and Historic Texas Lands designations.  I honestly did not know this treasure existed, but there it was 1 1/2 miles down the road from Goliad. This fort was built […]

Remember Goliad

Posted on: Mar 26, 2014        In: Out and About        With: No comments
More men were massacred at Goliad than died at the Alamo and San Jacinto combined.  At the battle of San Jacinto, the battle cry was, “Remember the Alamo, Remember Goliad.”  It was the massacre of 342 prisoners of war at Goliad that turned the sentiments of the people of the United States to aid fellow […]

The PumpHouse Riverside Restaurant and Bar – Victoria, Texas

Posted on: Mar 24, 2014        In: Out and About        With: No comments
We asked for a “good place to eat” in Victoria.  The desk clerk suggested The PumpHouse.  Then another guest chimed in and raved about this Riverside Restaurant and Bar.  Hi-ho, hi-ho, to The PumpHouse we did go.  Eating at The PumpHouse Riverside Restaurant and Bar was one of the most enjoyable evenings we have shared […]