BRUNO
MICHEL Country Music Journalist
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2004 Don't mess with Texas |
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It's
about time to prepare for our home project. So it was a full month
tourin' Texas and makin' and meetin' friends |
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We spent about a week in Austin, the Capital of Texas.
Country Music since 1964: The Broken Spoke.
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We celebrate the 10th anniversary of our friends' trailer setup in Gatesville. And we want to explore some areas to narrow down our potential business environment for the future.
The
surrounding country offers many sights, too. The little samples
of our visits give by no means a complete picture. There's so much
more to see and do.
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Let's
stroll 
For all people
- but especially for country music fans - a trip to 
Every last
Saturday in July, 
Back
in San Antonio it was time to visit 
If
it weren't for Waylon and Willie, who would know about 
...and
some refreshing drinks.
Relaxing
Beach Life during day...
Late night
at the hotel, "planning" our next day trips...
...and
... or
in 
Waiting
to be seated and finally we made it.
It was quite
chaotic but great fun.
Downtown
Austin.
We enjoyed
A
sidestep to 
We
drove north to 
Tana and Terry Rasor, our kind hosts for three days.
Waiting for the festival to kick off.
Great
cook backstage and great songwriter on stage: 
Antique
shopping in 
Nature's calling
us to 
Back at
the ranch of our Friends for the last days. Waiting for...
It's raining outside, so we hang out inside.
Party
time at the ranch.
Farewell
dinner before 
A few days in 
Learned about the history at 
Cruising
the 
Drinks and souvenirs at the 
The
legendary 
On
our way back to San Antonio we stopped in 
Don't
miss a day or night cruise on the river with 
Antique
shopping in 
Off
to the coast to meet our friends from Gatesville. We took the ferry
to get from 
...and night.
...to 
Strolling
and shopping in Corpus...
...made
us hungry: so we went to the re-opened Roadhouse in Corpus.
The
next day we were crossing the border at 
Hungry after
a busy day on the way to Austin. We love 
No,
this ain't the tourbus of 
Don't
get lost on I-35. 
Time for a
trip underneath I-35: 
...where
the famous 
We were invited
to the Brazos river to attend 
One more time
we were joined by our friends from Gatesville.
Texas
Music Legends, such as 
Always busy and omnipresent at all times: 
Some
"serious" food at the 
Antique
quest in 
...the
livestock auction in 
The next day, we were checking out the types of homes we'd like
to live in once we would have established our business.
Some
bowling and
it was back
home again after 4'710 "miles and miles of Texas".