Big Bend Road Trip - Day 3

Route:	Palestine, TX -to- Buda, TX
Miles Today:	264
Total Miles:	1,352

A much shorter day, but very minimal Interstate highway riding as we took back roads or state highways the whole day. The fact that we are in Texas was made clear because of the oil pumps working away in the fields right next to the cattle. If you have never left the east coast, these pumps look like this:


A lot of these were idle, perhaps because the oil is gone by now. A few were pumping away very slowly. I do not know the technology behind these things, but I will have to look it up.

Buda, Texas is just south of Austin, so we are in Longhorn country in more ways than one.

Observations from the road:

• Saw a street sign for Union Chapel Road. My parents live directly off an identically named road in Robeson County, NC.
  
• Cow pastures in Texas can be much larger than those back East. Not all of them were much bigger than a Virginia field, but a few were very huge.
• There is Armadillo road kill in Texas too.

Had dinner at the famous Salt Lick Bar-B-Que restaurant in Driftwood.