We were free to explore today. We started our day by driving into nearby Columbus for breakfast at Schobel’s Restaurant. They are not only inexpensive, they have good food. Peggy had chicken and waffles and I had a rather large chicken fried steak that was accompanied by onion-laced hash browns, a couple eggs and two freshly baked English muffins. The whole shebang was $21 and all the food was very tasty.
Our trip to the trough completed, we then took off northeast on TX-71 toward La Grange. There we stumbled across the Czech Cultural Center where they have a very nice main building with meeting facilities, a large library, a museum dedicated to Czechs who settled here in Texas, a gift shop with Czech stuff for sale and a great deck. Nearby they have assembled a bunch of historical buildings making a little village behind the main building. The facility was staffed by many volunteers who were both informative and quite friendly, considering we are plainly not from Texas.
We also took a little spin through Fayetteville, a cute little town with gorgeous residential and governmental structures. The city hall in the middle of town is a peach. The back roads around here are fascinating. There is both imported and domestic wildlife, birds everywhere (although more than a few vultures feeding on surplus roadkill deer and skunks), beautiful countryside and hardly any traffic. We like it.
We got pix of our checking of the Czechs. Click here