Pig Pen BBQ

May 26, 2022May 25, 2022 — Food — 2 min read

An awesome BBQ joint in Dripping Springs, Texas

From the outside it sure doesn’t look like much, and it wasn’t all that easy to find the door. Our experience is that those BBQ places that have spiffy new buildings are places we eat at only once. Pig Pen BBQ actually started life as a food truck that grew so popular they had to acquire a building.

**Much of the décor is reclaimed sheet metal**

Everybody has her or his vice. Mine issues forth from the bright red dispenser. I simply have to have Dr. Pepper with my BBQ and it sure isn’t that diet stuff.

pork and beans — **She had a pork sandwich with charro beans**

I opted for a pork sandwich with a side of corn casserole. (The jalapeno was from her charro beans). Think chewy corn, finely diced tomatoes? and a cream sauce with some other ingredients that I couldn’t begin to guess what they were, all of which that made for the best corn dish outside of my wife’s scalloped corn that I have tasted. And we both agreed the huge mound of pork inside the bun was as good as it gets. It was so good neither one of us added any extra BBQ sauce to it. Next time we are in Dripping Springs we will be back here. Gotta try some of their other meats you know.

A Band (Group) of Javelinas

May 25, 2022May 23, 2022 — Eclectic — 1 min read

Video from one of our security cameras at our RV lot.

No more javelinas rooting around in our back yard since we fully enclosed it. Now they have to stay in the greenspace behind our lot. Before they would just come up on this side of the green space fence as ours and the lots around us had no backyard fences. Now we are the middle lot in five consecutive lots that have completely fenced backyards.

A Riding Mower Graveyard

May 24, 2022May 23, 2022 — Eclectic, Humor, Travel — 1 min read

Just down the road from the RV park where we are staying is what you see above, dozens and dozens of riding mowers. It is a small engine and lawnmower repair place, with our best guess being this is their parts department. Either that or they have far more business than they can take care and these are all waiting to be repaired., lol It’s the great thing about traveling down the road of life, you never know what you will come across. It’s your Life, remember to Laugh, Love Live.

Fitzhugh Brewery

May 23, 2022May 23, 2022 — Food, Travel — 2 min read

A change of pace today. The weather has been Texas summer hot, with today being no exception. My wife is not much of a beer drinker, but she likes to say she really enjoys a cold strong dark beer on a really hot day. None of that Bud Light crap for her. Years ago we spent a day on a beer tasting tour in the Czech Republic. In the group was a fellow from Texas that wanted to try some foreign beers as he put it. Later when we were all talking about our experiences with the different Czech beers he said none them were any good. When someone asked him why, he said none of them were real beers because none of them tasted like Bud or Bud Light. Needless to say, everyone in the group laughed at him behind his back after that.

She who plans where we go had picked this brewery from the many in the Dripping Springs area because of what the photo shows, beer on tap. Looking through the large windows behind the bar we could see the brewing area. There was plenty of seating inside, a large patio outside and beyond the patio was a tree covered slope where all types of kids play ground equipment and picnic tables were located.

Desert Door Sotol Distillery

May 22, 2022May 22, 2022 — Food, Travel — 2 min read

Alcohol can be made from many things, At Desert Door they make it from the desert plant called sotol.

What a difference a day makes. Dipping Springs in just west of Austin, and it being a beautiful Saturday, the crowds were out in abundance.

The part of the sotol plant that is fermented to make the namesake alcohol. One plant makes one bottle.

The menu. All they serve are drinks, but here is food truck on site if one wants food.

Our libations. The three on the right are the tasting flight I ordered. Hers is the fancy dancy one on the left. From right to left they are: Desert Door Original Texas Sotol, Desert Door Oak-Aged Texas Sotol, Desert Door Gold Dust Oak-Aged Texas Sotol and a River Rita cocktail. I thought the original was actually pretty good, but the Gold Dust was really outstanding. At first she thought the River Rita was too much on the sour side, but as the ice melted it improved to the point she thought it was very, very good. We would rate Desert Door as a very good “stumble upon”, something we seem to have happen often in our travels.