The first day of our Christmas road trip began from home which we left in the rain about 9:30 am. While I had looked at a map and marked out a route, we used a Garmin GPS for the first time. There are many nice features to this GPS and I feel I’ll warm up to it eventually. We skirted around Austin on toll roads then headed east on highway 79 through Hutto, Taylor, Rockdale, to Hearne where we turned north on highway 6 to Calvert, our first stop.
We stopped at Zamykal Kolaches in Calvert to pick up a dozen kolaches. Then we walked across the street to the Wooden Spoon café. While the food was okay there was nothing special about the café or the meal. Soon we were back on the road heading north on highway 14 through Bremond to Groesbeck where we stopped for gasoline. My father once lived in Groesbeck but this was our first return there in about 40 years or so. We continued on to Richland where we headed north on I-45 a short distance. In Corsicana we took highway 31 west around Athens and Tyler where we took I-20 to our destination of the Hampton Inn in Longview, Texas.
We checked into the hotel and called Rita’s brother, Ken, and his wife, Mary. They came by and we drove the very short distance to Cheddars restaurant where we had dinner. After dinner and conversation they took us back to the hotel and headed off. It was a short but nice visit. The rain followed us to Longview and it appears that it will be with us tomorrow as well.
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