San Antonio, Texas

Buc-ee's is a chain of country stores and gas stations with locations in Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, and Florida. Additional locations are currently under development in Colorado, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and South Carolina.

Buc-ee's Fuel on the east side of New Braunfels covers 18 acres with 60 fuel pumps and 1,000 parking spots, 64 ice freezers, 83 toilets, 31 cash registers, four Icee machines, and 80 fountain dispensers. 

The New Braunfels store is the largest convenience store in the world at 66,335 square feet.

Witte Museum

  We signed up with the Witte Museum to do a tour to the White Shaman Mural near Comstock, Texas.   Thought it was a good idea to stop by the museum to learn about the mural and the people that painted it thousands of years ago.

Journey through the Lower Pecos Canyonlands and experience the daily life and spiritual world of the People of the Pecos, who lived here in Texas for over 9,000 years.

Travel millions of years into the past walking through the Dinosaur Gallery.

Texas Wild Gallery

The wildlife is as diverse as the vast territory it inhabits. 

We had just seen and feed the Rose-breasted Grosbeaks in Mississippi

Finally some Texas BBQ at County Line BBQ

Georgetown, Texas

Dinner at  Hard Count Kitchen with Glenn & Char

Inner Space Cavern

The cavern was formed by water passing through Edwards limestone. The cavern is estimated to be around 20-25 million years old but were only open to the surface since the late Pleistocene period 14,000–45,000 years ago.

Cave cricket

Cave bat

Dinner at 600 Degrees

We did a day trip to Austin that turned out to be a total bust.

We were intrigued by this public restroom and happy to find it.

Nashville, Tennessee

Arnold's Meat and Three

Country Music Hall of Fame

Ryman Auditorium

Lost River Cave

Tucked away in the city of Bowling Green, Kentucky lies a natural wonder, a seven-mile cave system. The Lost River originates outside of the cave and gets lost as it flows underground.

In addition to the cave there is over 60 acres of wooded trails and activities just waiting to be explored.

Lost River was rumored to have been used for manufacturing alcohol during the Prohibition, although this has not been proven. With the repeal of Prohibition, however, the cave obtained a new use. In 1934, local businessman opened a nightclub in the mouth of the cave, complete with stage, bar and dance floor. Known as the "Cavern Nite Club," the venue was popular because of its cool temperatures during a time when air conditioning was relatively rare.

Dance floor

Lunch at Pub by Novo

Kentucky Brown sandwich

Corvette Museum

Damaged corvettes from the 2014 sinkhole

 This 48" manhole provides access to the cave, you can peer into the window to see the floor of the sinkhole over 30 feet down!

Whiskey tasting

A mobile dispensary, not something you see often.

Yes, very lame