HAPPY SUNDAY to every one

Captured in Luckenbach, Texas

Only the crystal-clear question yields a transparent answer. ~ZEN proverb~

Wishing you all a wonderful Sunday!

~Susanne

I went to Luckenbach Texas

This is how our day started yesterday Monday morning: Dave had the idea to make an oil change on our RV - that was fine with me. But the place to drive in was VERY tight on every sites....

and it was to tight on the way out - this is the result: an almost broken bumper! Well...Not a perfect start of a nice day - but we got an oil change, right....?... :))

We drove up into Hill Country and arrived in Luckenbach Texas! A tiny little spot in the landscape, you will miss it if you're not aware enough.

Luckenbach Texas

Its oldest building is a combination general store and saloon reputedly opened in 1849 (1886 is more likely based on land improvement records of the state library) by Minna Engel, whose father was an itinerant preacher from Germany. The community, first named Grape Creek, was later named after Minna's husband, Carl Albert Luckenbach, who was then her fiance; they would later move to another town which became Albert, Texas. Luckenbach was first established as a community trading post and was one of the few that never broke a peace treaty with the Comanche Indians, with whom they bartered and traded.

Citizens of the town claimed one of them (Jacob Brodbeck) had launched the first airplane years before the Wright Brothers.[1]

Its population increased to a high of 492 in 1904, but by the 1960s, Luckenbach was almost a ghost town.

Side view of the main building, still looking like in 1849, that is still today a general store and a bar, but the post office is no more active

Across the main building is the "Dance-Hall" and signs about all the country music activities going on in Luckenbach

And now some shots of the inside of the general store, it's still authentic and looks the same since 1849 - and the folks there are very proud of that!

There are even walking sticks available....

and all kind of souvenirs, from caps to shirts and stickers and so much more!

More souvenirs...

The ladies could also buy a corset in this store :)

David bought a cap and the guy was dusting off the dust of Luckenbach :)

On the end of the shop is the bar. Three guys have just finished they singing and were packing up the guitars. This is the place were famous and not so famous people just come in and hang out together, play music and sing country songs. It was a very peaceful atmosphere!

All the caps hanging on the ceiling

Pictures of famous singers and all kind of stickers on the wall

And these are now the boots from Waylon Jenning, the guy in the video from yesterday, who get famous with this song:

Let's go to Luckenbach Texs

There's only two things in life that make it worth livin'
That's guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women
I don't need my name in the marquee lights
I got my song and I got you with me tonight
Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love

Let's go to Luckenbach Texas with Waylon and Willie and the boys
This successful life we're livin' got us feuding
like the Hatfield and McCoy's
Between Hank Williams pain songs, Newberry's train songs
and blue eyes cryin' in the rain, out in Luckenbach Texas
ain't nobody feelin' no pain

So baby let's sell your diamond ring
Buy some boots and faded jeans and go away
This coat and tie is choking me
In your high socitey you cry all day
We've been so busy keepin' up with the Jones
Four car garage and we're still building on
Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love

Let's go to Luckenbach Texas with Waylon and Willie and the boys
This successful life we're livin' got us feuding
like the Hatfield and McCoy's
Between Hank Williams pain songs, Newberry's train songs
and blue eyes cryin' in the rain out in Luckenbach Texas
ain't nobody feelin' no pain

Let's go to Luckenbach Texas with Willie and Waylon and the boys
This successful life we're livin' got us feuding
like the Hatfield and McCoy's
Between Hank Williams pain songs and Jerry Jeff's train songs
and blue eyes cryin' in the rain out in Luckenbach Texas
ain't nobody feelin' no pain

For "Girls and Boys"

This is the motto in Luckenbach!

A little bit of new history about this place

And after visiting Luckenbach we drove to Fredericksburg, also located in the Hill Country of Texas!


Hi my friends,

Tomorrow I'll show you pictures of a very pretty little town Fredericksburg in Texas Hill Country. We stay one night more here on this place, it's to nice and warm here too!

A sneak peak to my post of tomorrow!

ENJOY the music - I will deliver the photos to "Let's go to Luckenbach Texas" tomorrow!
Susanne

Resource: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzag6K1WO8M

Leaving Port Aransas to New Braunfels,Tx

Last Sunday we left Port Aransas with the Ferry to Aransas Pass, a maybe 5 minutes drive over to the other side.

A very long Mexican train was crossing our way in Aransas Pass

Do you know how a "mirage" looks like? It's like in this photo here...it's like the houses and trees are standing in deep open waters - but they are not. Texas is flat, flat,flat and the weather was warm and this makes the phenomena of a "Fata Morgana", like some people call a "mirage" also.

After driving for more than 2.5 hours over flat land in Texas, we drove into San Antonio, a big city with a very big traffic, where I never ever could imagine to be living here! We were searching for New Braunfels, our next goal for the night.

Finally we arrived in Down Town of New Braunfels, a nice little town with a lot of Germans living here, their roots are going back to the first settlers coming to this place in 1842 from Germany.

This is absolutely a wonderful mural that shows the settlers arriving on a beach and celebrating Christmas together at the beach. (click in the photo to see it bigger)

This painted script tells the back story of the German settlers

We have discovered there a typical German Restaurant named "Friesenhaus" und we went in to try the German food. For me: 3 typical German Sausages with "Bratkartoffeln" and Sauerkraut... of course! Dave had a "Sauerbraten" and "Spaetzle" and blue cabagge - and of course a real, good German beer. And I can tell you, it was very good!!! :))

Obviously we missed the life music with the "Lederhosen-Guys", they don't play on Sunday evening anymore!

Click on the picture to read it bigger. We've enjoyed our food very much. I just cannot drink beer anymore without to be a little bit tipsy after one glass only... LOL...well...we are not planning either to eat every day in a German Restaurant, to many calories.....! :)


Hy my friends,

Thanks for all your kind comments to my first video and for the support and suggestions for doing more of them - I will, I promise. :)

Tomorrow, Monday we will discover the Hill Country region here, going to Luckenbach (well known as a place where people gathering together, play country music and sing together) Today are only 3 habitants living in Luckenbach! We want also go to Friedericksburg, with something over 8000 habitants. In this two places are also a lot of German settlers and Amish people living and they are still speaking their original German Motherlanguage. I'm not German myself, but I would love to speak some words in German again. We will see.... :))