#10 Burger -- Alamo Springs Cafe

I'm going to throw Texas a bone right now by putting the burger at the Alamo Springs Cafe as my #10 all time burger. I'm making it a provisional rating because one of my rules for rating burgers is that I have to visit twice before ranking the burger. But I believe this is the best burger I've had in Texas, beating out such mainstays as the Counter Cafe, The Cove, Parkside, Phil's Icehouse, Hut's, Mighty Fine, La Tuna Grill, Chris Madrid's and a few others.

Margaret did remind me of another great thing about the Alamo Springs Cafe: no other burger I can think of comes at the end of a more beautiful drive. As you head south from Fredricksburg on Old Antonio Road, you're treated to 12 miles of some of the most gorgeous scenery in Texas Hill Country. Perhaps that made the burger seem even more delicious, but so what.

Whistling past graveyards...

I know it's bad luck to photograph graveyards, but this one in Fredericksburg, Texas was quite amazing. Fredericksburg was founded in 1846, a year after Texas became a state, and the vast majority of these gravesites were of the German settlers who populated the area at that time.

The wrought iron gated graves you see here were primarily from the Old West era. I also noticed that quite a few of the people in this graveyard died from 1891 to 1893. I wonder if there was an influenza or cholera outbreak at the time.

My New Buddy!

You gotta love kangaroos. Well, I guess you don't have to since I've seen that YouTube video of that TV reporter who got his butt kicked by one, but this sweet little girl kangaroo was in a playpen at an antique store in Fredericksburg, Texas. She was really docile and very, very soft. I thought she would be startled when I started to pet the top of her head (yes, her owner said I could), but she just sat there and enjoyed it.

So now I can cross "pet a kangaroo in Fredericksburg, Texas" off my bucket list.