Every fall, my partner and I make it our point to get away. Whether it’s a quick day trip to Bandera to wander through a pumpkin patch, or a days-long escape to some corner of the Hill Country, the trip usually opens our eyes to the metaphorical bubble that is 1604.
On this occasion, we carved out a riverside trip to Wimberley (not Wimberly as my autocorrect would like to believe), home to the idyllic Jacob’s Well and Blue Hole Regional Park, just 40 miles southwest of Austin. Tucked away between both U.S. 281 and I-35, Hays County’s population, like that of surrounding Comal County, boomed in the last 10 years. From 2010 to 2020, Hays County gained more than 83,000 new inhabitants.
We packed my Honda Fit with all sorts of snacks, camping chairs, far too much luggage for a four-day trip and set sail. After leaving late in the afternoon, we made it to our Airbnb in complete darkness, winding our way through the back roads leading to our stay. We’d hit the shops the next morning, and dip our toes in the Blanco River to soak up the remaining warm days of the season.
It wasn’t until the next morning that we decided to pop in to town, or what Google labels a “village,” for breakfast and shopping. As we sipped on our lattes outside the Sugar Shack, a quaint bakery with a killer walnut-topped sticky bun, we heard the sounds of cheers, honking and chanting.
This is Texas after all, so we assumed the ruckus was a homecoming game or cheer camp. We thought nothing of it and went…
Every fall, my partner and I make it our point to get away. Whether it’s a quick day trip to Bandera to wander through a pumpkin patch, or a days-long escape to some corner of the Hill Country, the trip usually opens our eyes to the metaphorical bubble that is 1604.
On this occasion, we carved out a riverside trip to Wimberley (not Wimberly as my autocorrect would like to believe), home to the idyllic Jacob’s Well and Blue Hole Regional Park, just 40 miles southwest of Austin. Tucked away between both U.S. 281 and I-35, Hays County’s population, like that of surrounding Comal County, boomed in the last 10 years. From 2010 to 2020, Hays County gained more than 83,000 new inhabitants.
We packed my Honda Fit with all sorts of snacks, camping chairs, far too much luggage for a four-day trip and set sail. After leaving late in the afternoon, we made it to our Airbnb in complete darkness, winding our way through the back roads leading to our stay. We’d hit the shops the next morning, and dip our toes in the Blanco River to soak up the remaining warm days of the season.
It wasn’t until the next morning that we decided to pop in to town, or what Google labels a “village,” for breakfast and shopping. As we sipped on our lattes outside the Sugar Shack, a quaint bakery with a killer walnut-topped sticky bun, we heard the sounds of cheers, honking and chanting.
This is Texas after all, so we assumed the ruckus was a homecoming game or cheer camp. We thought nothing of it and went…Read Morelocal_news
