We spotted some elk near the road on our way to Ellinger about 15 miles up the road to eat things called kolaches that they seem to be quite proud about in these parts. They are little rolls with stuff in them, like sausage, another kind of sausage, cabbage-wrapped sausage and/or sausage and cheese. They are actually pretty tasty but there ain’t much meat in them and there is ample bread which I am not supposed to eat because I am an old, sick fart.
From there we went to La Grange primarily because there is a ZZ Top tune of the same name. La Grange is a very nice little town with some classic old houses that have beautiful architecture and a downright gorgeous courthouse. We met a TX doctor in the street in front of the courthouse who was a wizard on local Texas history and we got a few ideas from him about nice places to visit. One thing he mentioned were painted churches that we drove to in High Hill on the way to Schulenburg on our return route on I-10. The outside of the church was ordinary but the inside was gorgeous and the stained-glass windows (all from 1899) were beautiful.
In Schulenburg we took an auto tour that runs you by about 10 or 12 historic structures which are all pretty neat although we never found the last two.
We stopped at a BBQ place called Mikeskas which runs a Sunday buffet for $11. Good food. They probably lost money on me since they have lots of bread stuff I am not supposed to eat but they also had good meat of several varieties which I filled up on before meeting the owner and having Peg take his and my picture.
We only got lost a little before the Garmin got us back home to the Invader. Lots of deer on the entrance road.