Busy, good times!

We have been on a whirlwind for the last couple days.  It's been wonderful to see and visit with our friends, Larry and Mary Ellen.  They are building a beautiful house in the area.  We went to see their house under construction, then over to see a similar model, very, very nice!  I'm sure they will be happy with it.  It's in a great area, nice and quiet and rural looking, but close to all amenities, and a short drive to work....Perfect.
We've been eating up a storm as well.  Mexican, Chinese, Barbecue, American, all the nationalities:)  And I think today we'll do some more.  We hadn't been to the Austin area for several years, but from all appearances, things are bustling, busy, and lots of signs of building.  The economy looks great here in the Hill Country.
We are in Round Rock, TX as I mentioned.  As we were driving around Larry asked if we wanted to see the "round rock"?  I thought he was kidding.  It turns out Round Rock is named for an actual round rock. A section of the Chisholm Trail goes right through the area and crosses the Brushy Creek.  There is a round rock in the river at the crossing.  If the round rock was exposed, above the water level, the crossing was safe, if not, you needed to wait until the river lowered.  Pretty interesting.  Here's THE Round Rock.

On another note, the exhaust leak that I thought was caused by a missing exhaust clamp is actually a leak in a section of flex exhaust pipe that is coming apart.  We will probably detour down to San Antonio on Monday to get it fixed.