Rick and Bonnie Monk: Our Trip to Bandera (The Cowboy Capital of the World)

The weather in Texas is wonderful. The cardinals are singing cheerfully every morning before the sun rises. We took a road trip leaving early Wednesday morning stopping at the Natural Bridget Caverns for an hour long tour through fabulous caverns 180 feet below the surface looking at ancient formations of stalagmites, stalactities, flowstones and chandeliers. From there we travelled to the quaint town of Boerne where we enjoyed a nice lunch at the Creek Resaurant on their patio overlooking the river, then on to Bandera (known as the Cowboy Capital of the World). Our accomodation in Bandera was a room in a very rustic building called the Bunkhouse. It has been a long time since we have stayed in accomodations like that but it worked out perfectly because it was located on main street and everything was in walking distance. On Wednesday nights the 11th Street Bar fires up their huge barbeques and everyone takes and cooks there own meat then buys a plate of mashed potatoes, salad and roll for $5.00. Amazing part of this bar is that if drink liquor , you can take your own. The entertainment was The Kathy Bauer Band and as soon as the entertainment started the locals start dancing around the huge dance floor, and could they dance (Barb and Murray would love it). From there we went over to the

Bandera Saloon. They had a great band that could play anything (The Toman Brothers) and stopping for a beer on our way back to the Bunkhouse next door turned into a great evening meeting the friendly Bandera locals and dancing the night away. Before heading home on Thursday morning we golfed at the Flying L Ranch golf course.

On Friday we golfed at Willow Springs one of the courses included in a package we purchased ($49.00 and we can play 6 free rounds at 6 differest courses when we pay the cart fee).