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Since I missed the tour at the shiner
brewery, I decided to take the tour from my local Walmart. One went MIA.
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Pop the top but it didn't want to leave. Just hung on the edge so I gave it a congratulatory pic. 👇
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South Tex told me to get off my A.. and ride to frio town. Rather fitting name wouldn't you say considering it's 48 degrees this morning. My seat heater is working but works on high level only. Better than nothing.
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Perfect weather for a south Texas loop today. Met @StromXTc in Cambellton and then rode over to the abandoned town of Frio Town. Unfortunately other than the cemetery it’s all on private property.

On the way we thought of our friend @Windmill and found a great picture that should get us lots of bonus points.

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First stop on a good road trip is to eat. When they put the pit right in the parking lot, it’s gotta be good. The Brisketman in Pearsall got 4 thumbs up and strangely it appeared to be run completely by women.

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We found the oldest building in Pearsall which was the jail which got a lot of years use.

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Finally made it to Frio Town, and walked the cemetery which had a large amount of infant or child deaths. I guess it was a hard life back then, including this guy.

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South Tex said:
Perfect weather for a south Texas loop today. Met @StromXTc in Cambellton and then rode over to the abandoned town of Frio Town. Unfortunately other than the cemetery it’s all on private property.

On the way we thought of our friend @Windmill and found a great picture that should get us lots of bonus points.

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First stop on a good road trip is to eat. When they put the pit right in the parking lot, it’s gotta be good. The Brisketman in Pearsall got 4 thumbs up and strangely it appeared to be run completely by women.

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We found the oldest building in Pearsall which was the jail which got a lot of years use.

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Finally made it to Frio Town, and walked the cemetery which had a large amount of infant or child deaths. I guess it was a hard life back then, including this guy.

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Passed those windmills 6 times last week
 
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A number of the older Graves were buried in what I am calling burial pens. We figured they were built to protect the graves from scavengers. Probably not a lot of lumber available in the early times for proper caskets . We read the Headstones and our imaginations take control. 👇

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A lot of those "pens" are just markers delineating family plots within a cemetery. It is also common to see a smaller fenced in area outside but adjoining the main fenced area of the entire cemetery. In years past, the cemeteries were typically privately owned and sometimes disputes between families led to owners banning members of the offending family from being buried in their cemetery. So they would just do their own smaller cemetery right next to the main one so they could still be close to family already interred in the main cemetery. Also, many cemeteries were segregated, whites inside the fence, everyone else outside the fence. It was also common to just have completely separate cemeteries. My GPS Topo Maps when I first started riding dual sports had these little blue dots on the maps for EVERY cemetery. So I would ride off around the country side to check them out. Some were merely a few graves in the middle of the woods on what was barely a dirt road. Some were on private land and inaccessible. I got chased off a few times even though I WAS on public land. It just wasn't worth pushing the point. I've also met some really cool people and heard interesting local history because of random encounters. One was a woman 104 years old coming to visit her husband's grave! She was being escorted by her 80 something year old daughter and 60 something year old granddaughter. When we were starting to have kids and were considering names, I would check out all the names on the head stones for ideas. There were a LOT of infant graves and Wife 1, Wife 2,... graves. Having babies was a risky thing back then and a lot of women and babies didn't survive the ordeal. There are a lot of graves out there that predate Texas becoming a country and later a state. I found some that were even from the mid to late 1700s. Hard to imagine what life must have been like here back then :ponder:
 
Tough crowd. You'se guys weren't wearin' your colors, were you? Looks like there coulda been some space up on the sidewalk.
 
Glad to see my old 96’ GS still going. I was the 2nd owner (maybe 3rd), had it 8 years and moved it from Houston to the Hill Country. Even my custom fork stops still glued on.

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