{"id":22459,"date":"2013-03-27T20:52:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T01:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=19055"},"modified":"2016-09-20T16:49:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T13:49:38","slug":"more-rving-friends-and-a-visit-to-gruene-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/more-rving-friends-and-a-visit-to-gruene-tx\/","title":{"rendered":"More RVing Friends and a Visit to Gruene, TX"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, I drove north of San Antonio to meet up with longdog2<\/a>, and then we pushed on even closer to Austin so we could meet up with a couple of other RV women, including Malia Lane<\/a>!!! I just need to meet Andy Baird<\/a> and I can die happy that I have met my RVing mentors. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

One of us just had a major exciting big change in her life (not me!), so there was a lot of gabbing about that before and during lunch, which stretched well into the afternoon!<\/p>\n

On the way home, longdog2 and I stopped in the town of Gruene<\/a> (pronounced Green) because I had promised Croft<\/a> I would go there. It’s a cute historic town full of antique shops and is the home of the famous Gruene Hall<\/a> honky tonk where George Strait got his start. Built in 1878, this decrepit old building is the longest continually operated dance hall in Texas! Wow!<\/p>\n

\"Welcome<\/a>

Welcome to Gruene.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Pretty<\/a>

Pretty foliage and a prickly cactus by a winery.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Exterior<\/a>

Exterior of an antiques store.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Gruene<\/a>

Gruene Water Tower<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Poster<\/a>

Poster for a Patsy Cline show.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Poster<\/a>

Poster for a show with Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Wayon Jennings, and Kris Kristofersen. I was born after the good music. \ud83d\ude41<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Gruene<\/a>

Gruene Hall!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"This<\/a>

This honky tonk is looking a little worn.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>

The floors creak and buckle. I have no idea how people can dance here!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Wow,<\/a>

Wow, George Strait looks young, especially without his mustache.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Garth<\/a>

Garth Brooks. *fans self*<\/p><\/div>\n

\"George<\/a>

George Strait got his start here.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>

The stage.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Men's<\/a>

Men’s dressing room on the right facing the stage.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Women's<\/a>

Women’s dressing rooms are on the left.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Pot<\/a>

Pot belly stove.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Moi<\/a>

Moi in Gruene Hall.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Exterior<\/a>

Exterior of Gruene Hall.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"If<\/a>

If it gets really cold, they can cover the windows.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"A<\/a>

A former grist mill and now a restaurant.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Another<\/a>

Another pretty building.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"No<\/a>

No idea. Can’t be a storm shelter since it has a window.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Close<\/a>

Close up of the antique store sign.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"A<\/a>

A lawyer wanted a little office…<\/p><\/div>\n

\"About<\/a>

About the little office.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, I drove north of San Antonio to meet up with longdog2, and then we pushed on even closer to Austin so we could meet up with a couple of other RV women, including Malia Lane!!! I just need to meet Andy Baird and I can die happy that I have met my RVing mentors. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,635,5,1039,3,16,1417],"tags":[796,794,779],"class_list":["post-22459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gruene","category-north-america","category-rving","category-texas","category-travel","category-usa","category-von-ormy","tag-city-tours","tag-restaurants","tag-theatres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}