On Friday, we went into Fort Worth, Texas to visit the Stockyards. An area of town that takes you back to the old west long ago. The town was full of stores, restaurants, rodeo coliseum, and a bunch of cowboys dressed the part.
About 11:30am, the towns people gathered along the street curbs awaiting the morning haunt of the Longhorns. Everyday at this time, several cowboys on horses guide about 18 huge steers with the longest horns I’ve ever seen. They marched downtown for a couple of blocks to their stables for the day. At 4:30pm, they return on the same path to their sleeping stables. It was pretty cool. They were giving us a small snapshot of what the cowboys did long ago, but with 1,800 longhorns!
We ate lunch at a steakhouse that was full of cowboys and cowgirls. Steaks were great and reasonable priced.
Then we strolled up and down the small western town, found our magnet for Texas, and enjoyed the atmosphere similar to long ago.
We returned to the RV park in Grand Prairie, washed the car and RV, and ate supper in the RV. Tomorrow, we boondock overnight, about 3 hours from our final destination, Maverick Ranch RV Park, Lajitas, TX.