Texas backcountry

We finally leave San Antonio at about 11.15am after the rain lifts and the roads dry out. The rainfall was between 7.4 and 12 inches. Second highest daily rain fall on record! We head further west and get off interstate 10 at Comfort, to find some real country. Stopped off at what we thought was a county fair only to find an art crafty show in Kerville with maybe 60 stalls, Had a light lunch while listening to the local talent singing and a band playing, nice. Thats the culture done for the day.
We travel through to Rock Springs where we met two lads with a pick up and a 40 foot trailer hooked up. They had just carted some freight on it that weighed 18 ton. Thats a semi load of stuff on a trailer hooked to a pick up!! We rode past some uninspiring country running goats and deer. We think the deer is for hunting, by paying customers. The fencing alone would make it a difficult enterprise to break even on. Most gates were fancy ranch type units but the locks on the gate tell us that they may not be fully habitat-ed. We stop for the night at Del Rio on the Mexican border. Dinner that night cost $45.00 at the Sirloin Steak house. Thats $45.00 for the four of us! It was a Warren Buffett, and no one went home hungry and more particularly no one woke up with salmonella.