As we left the Alamo (remember that?) I placed a call to Barney Smith, the proprietor of the toilet lid art museum. Toilet Lids? Yea, it's his folk art medium of choice. Barney was a plumber by trade who one day mounted two pair of deer antlers on a toilet seat, thought that looked pretty good, and his passion (obsession?) was born. Originally, he told his wife he was going to stop at 500, when we were there he was in the 850's. We became part of the collection when we signed the Georgia seat, and put the approximate location of Athens on the map. Each seat has a theme, often dealing with Barney's work, travels, or family, others have sporting event or military themes. Most mark something personally important to Barney,and he can give the story behind any seat you ask about. If you are in San Antonio, and have some time to spend on some funky attractions, the toilet seat museum can't be beat. If you want to see it though, it's open by appointment only, and you need to call Barney Smith at 210-824-7791, because the museum is in his garage.
On the way out of San Antonio we did stop at purportedly the Worlds Largest Boots. We have nothing to compare it too, but we stopped to take some pictures anyway.
We also blew past another muffler man along the freeway.
To get to the next stop, Enchanted Rock, we passed through the town of Fredricksburg, TX, a quaint little town with some interesting architecture.
Enchanted Rock is the largest batholith in Texas. That is, it's a big granite stone, out of place with the rest of the terrain. It's like Stone Mountain in Georgia, only smaller, and without anything carved into it (yet.) Dawn and I were enchanted.
Past enchanted Rock, Dawn had to dodge cows on the road. We stopped to take a picture, but Dawn would not let me pet it.
We passed the afternoon in the plains of west Texas. Arriving at Midland/Odessa for dinner. We pushed on through the night with the guide of the Garmin GPS and the gas fires from the oil pumps crossing into New Mexico and onto Carlsbad.
One more for Barney:
We also blew past another muffler man along the freeway.
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