Thursday, January 9, 2020

Headed West again

We spent a couple of days in San Antonio visiting with Larson. The pic is Jenny, Larson and his weekday caretaker, Josefina. We are now a couple of hours west of SA in Brackettville. The area we're camped in is called "Fort Clark Springs". There was a calvery outpost here in the 1800s and it was the home base of some Buffalo Soldiers for a time. There were 1000s of German POWs interned here during WW2. They are actually responsible for a lot of the construction that is still standing. Jenny and I spent a couple of hours biking around and reading about the historic buildings. It looked like most of the remaining buildings were on the national register of historic places. This is a commercial property now and it is kinda run down. We have been to many historic forts similar to Fort Clark that were National Monuments or State parks and they were well maintained as educational destinations. Some of the historic buildings are now private residences with junk in the yard and beat up pickups parked out front. Oh well. There is a pretty robust spring here. It fills a swimming pool kinda like Balmorhea. We rode our bikes along the swimming pools outflow. We move tomorrow.

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  1. Jenny, your dad looks great. Is that a fern in one of pics

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