Kit and Carol on the Road

We were quite surprised to find a primo museum on the War in the Pacific here in Fredericksburg, Texas. It turns out that Admiral Nimitz was born here. It was a cool museum. One part took you from the flight deck of an aircraft carrier to a PT boat to a beach landing to a field hospital. Lots more information that we had time for. Elsewhere in Fredericksburg there are a LOT of gift shops and I got to explore a bunch of them while Kit got the oil changed. There are also (I read) 300 B & B's. My favorite store was an old fashioned five and dime (with lots of good stuff) and this is a town with a Wal-Mart. Well, on second thought, the store that was a real hit with us was a huge Texas gourmet food shop--all kinds of sauces and other stuff and you could taste whatever you wanted. We also found a wine shop with some great beer (even our favorite Rogue Dead Guy). They passed a law in Fredericksburg that it's OK to walk down the street drinking beer (or wine). Not too many people doing it in this cold weather. At the end of a long day we finally got to visit one Texas winery. This is Texas wine country. Almost all of the wineries are also B & B's.