In what has become a summer roadtrip tradition (3rd annual iteration anyway), the first official stop is Burg's Corner near Stonewall, Texas, to have a cup of peaches and Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla ice cream. This year, Nate got to share in the peachy revelry with me.
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We headed off toward I-10 via Hunt, Texas so we could visit Stonehenge II, a 3/4 size replica of the original, just outside of Kerrville.
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It was a gorgeous summer afternoon dotted with puffy white clouds, serving to make the beautiful hill country limestome backdrop all the more dramatic.
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Stonehenge II was built by a couple of area families making excellent use of the concrete plant just down the way. I love thinking about what it must have been like when everyone got together for the work days, building the henge. I always picture them drinking a bunch of beer and cutting up and stuff. "Let's build us a damn HENGE!" they'd shout drunkenly.
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The stelae were actually constructed of concrete over a metal frame - not solid cement as it would seem.
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As we neared West Texas proper - a little west of Ozona - we encountered some fiesty summer storm cells on the horizon.
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We made an unscheduled stop to stretch our legs and found ourselves conveniently located at an abandoned oil company storage site.
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Nate found the decimated skeleton of a cat and carefully removed the head for his friend LadyBee.
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One man's tragedy is another man's treasure.
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