Ice Cream, Gin, Beer & Churches

Making our way south, we stopped at Lake Granger/Austin for 10 days and are now outside of Columbus at a Thousand Trails Campground. The weather has been nice so we waxed the trailer and took some excursions.

The Blue Bell Creamery in Brehnam is always
a fun place to stop. The tour is good but the
tasting room is a great place to eat lunch (ice cream).

Texas Cotton Gin Museum in Burton
This Cotton Gin was built exactly 100 years ago and still
is in working order today.
The guided tour was very good and worth the
time. We learned about cotton, picking and how
 Eli Whitney's invention, the Cotton Gin, works.

Spoetzl Brewery in Shiner Texas
We always stop in Shiner whenever we are in the
neighborhood for samples of Shiner Beer.

The Painted Churches of Texas is a well known circle tour in the Czech and German Settlements around Schulenburg, Texas. We spent a half day visiting some more of these interesting and historic buildings.

Sts. Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church was built in 1876 in Dubina ("Oak Grove" in Czech). After the hurricane of 1909, a new church was built on the site in 1912.

Sts. Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church

St. Mary's Catholic Church in High Hill
This is known as the "Queen of the Painted Churches"

Inside of St. Mary's