Austin to Fredericksburg

A first stop at Hamilton Pool, a state park with a natural swimming pool below a limestone cliff. The pool is 64 degrees so a little cold for swimming??????? In America the temperature is measured on a farenheit  scale, not the celcius scale we use in England. Next stop is an old farm settled by Germans who decided to make America their new home just over 100 years ago. No electricity, water from a stream, no supermarkets! The volunteers who work the farm today use the old methods with none of our modern technology. They showed us how to make cheese and yoghurt which only lasts 3 days without a fridge. They even had to make their own soap from boiled lard. The farm was at the edge of a ranch owned by a previous president of America, Lyndon Johnson. He and his wife, Ladybird, liked their farm in Texas so much that he often ran the country from the farm which became known as the Texas White House. We stopped for 2 nights in a town built by German settlers called Fredericksburg. All the original buildings line the main street and many restuarants are german bierkellers the same as in Germany today. There is a museum about the war between the Japanese and Americans in the Pacific Ocean because the American admiral in charge, Admiral Nimitz, came from Fredericksburg. There are submarines and torpedo boats in the middle of Texas! The temperature got to 87 degrees whilst we walked round the museum although it was only 50 degrees when we woke up in the morning.