The Codgers move to the hill country, part 1

We arrived in New Braunfels yesterday and didn't do much but sleep.  We spoke with our realtor and looked at the listings she had e-mailed.  I had not thought to put "No home owners association" on our list. 

Another search revealed only one house in our price range with no homeowners association.  She said finding one would be very difficult.  If we go higher, we can.

I suggested we look further out than Comal County--maybe one county over.  We set up an appointment for tomorrow morning,  then started doing some exploring.  We soon saw what she meant.  Comal County is growing as fast as Denton.  Builders and construction everywhere. We decided we really don't want to live here.  We will see what is available in the next county.

We then went to Winery on the Gruene which has a number of fruit wines that we sampled:


We went up and again explored the parks around Canyon Lake that we had no luck with last time we were there.  With Sue and Alan, we stopped at a little restaurant called Lakeview Café which had no lake view.  Little did we know, if we had just turned right there and gone down a ways, we'd have come to Canyon Park which has a public beach on the park and, a little further on a marina with lots of boats and a lakeside restaurant with a wonderful view called Baja BBQ Shack.




Of course, we weren't there at sunset, but it was beautiful just the same.  We sat in air conditioned splendor and had Shiner Boch beer and peel and eat shrimp.

Next, we drove around some more, then back to Gruene where we had dinner at the Gristmill Restaurant.  I recommend going in pleasant weather since it is open air.  Today it was 102 degrees and, even with the fans, it was hot.  We had another Shiner Boch and salads.  Then back we came to the motel to call it a night.