Round Top and Warrenton

If you drive toward Houston and take the La Grange exit, then continue on past La Grange, you'll find (twice a year) miles of garage sales and antique dealers, huge tents of them.

Mike and I drove there in the Mini, which limited what we could buy, but we had a great time talking to the venders there, buying a few small things, and (for me) taking pictures.  I love old dolls and bears and took lots of pictures of their antique faces.

What stories these girls could tell!

We also met a couple of twins from Missouri who'd driven to Texas to sell their bird houses.  Born in 1964, they are identical--traveling with "big sister" and a husband.

"I'll bet you two have stories to tell," I said--always fascinated by twinship.  They insisted otherwise: "Not really--just stories about when we bite each other's head off," one said.

Mike pretended to be arrested by the festival horseback police. We found terrific food at a Maine Lobster food truck in Round Top, where we sat and visited for a couple of hours with a couple who restores old campers (painting each a different color)--she's a self proclaimed gypsy from Longview and he's a traveling gospel singer.