It has been a week of Good Barbecue, good sights, and cold weather. We finish up the week with a trip to Enchanted Rock State Park, a trip to Fredericksburg, and the National Pacific War Museum. It turned out to be a good week although the weather did not cooperate to the point where we could bring the motorcycles, with Texas having rain and temperatures 15 to 20 degrees below normal.Did I mention the Barbecue, someone told Terri that we should go to Coopers Old Time Pit Barbecue Home of the big cop in Llano Texas. This was a very unique place where they served the meat off of big outside pits. You then took it inside where it was weighed and cut up as you decided on sides. Then we ate on one of the big inside picnic tables. It was an outstanding Texas Style Q.
After filling up on Texas Q we drove over to Enchanted Rock State Park and hiked up a 450 foot Granite uplift Mountain. As we drove up we could see the steady stream of people making their way to the top against a grey Texas sky. It was very strange standing on solid pink Granite. The only thing I could think of was there were a lot of kitchen counters beneath me. 
The next day we headed to Fredericksburg and the National Pacific War Museum. This was the highlight of our trip. An incredible overwhelming display that floods the senses with the sheer enormity of this theater of World War II. Sometimes I feel that the European Theater overshadows and dominates the history of the war in our popular culture. When the Japanese posed more of an immediate threat to the US homeland.
After lunch at the Ratskeller which was a great American German restaurant we made our way back to our home away from home in Lago Vista. The next day was a short 14-hour drive back home to Tennessee. It was good to get home and cross this part of Texas off the list. A little disappointed that the weather did not cooperate and we didn't get to cruise motorcycle through the hill country of Texas. Well, maybe next time. 
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