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Your A-List: Best Day Trip
We live in the greatest city in the country. Obviously you all agree or you wouldn’t be here, right? Right. But sometimes swimming at Barton Springs, walking the hike-and-bike trail, eating 4-star cuisine, playing disc golf, watching movies at the Drafthouse, going to museums and browsing bookstores for hours just gets a little monotonous, and we need a break. As hard as that sounds. That’s when it’s time to pack a backpack’s worth of clothes, fill the car up and head on a day trip. And when the urge hits you, you’d be hard pressed to find a better to place to visit than the winner, with 28 percent of the vote, of the Your A-List poll for Best Day trip, Fredericksburg, TX.
The county seat of Gillespie County, Fredericksburg is located about 70 miles west of Austin off of U.S. 290. According to Wikipedia, the town of just over 10,000 folks was founded in 1846 by Baron Otfried Hans von Meusebach, new Commissioner General of the “Society for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas.” And that German influence is reflected today in the town’s architecture and gastronomical fare.
The town may be best known as one of the most popular bed and breakfast destinations in the region, with a reported 300 of the establishments in the greater Fredericksburg area. When not relaxing at the B&Bs, visitors to the German settlement enjoy walking the quaint streets, taking in the aesthetic charms of the town and participating in the beloved Central Texas sport of antiquing. Your mom knows what I’m talking about.
So the next time you get the urge to escape the rat race of Austin (exaggeration intended), pack up the significant other, or the kids, or just go alone. Head out to a little piece of Bavaria located deep in the heart of Texas.
Others receiving votes
- Enchanted Rock, 14 percent
- Hamilton Pool, 14 percent
- New Braunfels, 11 percent
- Pedernales Falls, 8 percent
- Krause Springs, 7 percent
- Lake LBJ, 4 percent
- Wimberley, 4 percent
- Lockhart, 3 percent
- Dripping Springs, 3 percent
- Shiner, 2 percent
- Blanco, 2 percent
- Brenham, 1 percent
- Elgin, < 1 percent
Write-in votes: Bastrop and Buescher state parks, Gruene, Murphy’s Steakhouse in Winchester
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By adi
April 4, 2008 2:04 PM | Link to this
Shocking lack of “Fado on a Saturday or Sunday” on the list.