Texas Vacation 2022 - Day Seven - Winters TX to Home

 Winter's TX.  The name appears apt today.  It is DANG cold out.  We missed out on the deep freeze that hit North Texas while we were enjoying the wonders of Big Bend National Park.  Now, we are just cold.

There is a quilt shop here, but it hasn't opened yet.  Darn.

So - Winters.  A little info.  From it's beginning as a West Central Texas frontier community, Winters grew from a retail support center for the surrounding agricultural community to a small-town railroad link to an oil, gas and manufacturing center.  Settlement of the area of Winters began in the 1880s when two families, the Currys and the Bells, staked claim to the land one mile southeast of the present-day town.  In 1889, a small schoolhouse was build on land that was given by land agent J.N. Winters.  The community met in the completed schoolhouse to vote on the town name and Winters won.  

This building is the Blue Gap Post Office.  Named for the Gap in Table Mountains and established Feb. 14, 1878, this post office was transferred in 1882 to the town on Content - 2 miles north.  The one-room structure has hand-hewn cedar rafters, cedar shingles roof, and walls of roughly-hewn oak logs.  It also served as a stop on the Round Rock to Buffalo Gap state route.  Originally located 16 miles east of Winters, it was donated here in 2000.  It had a postmaster from 1878 until it was discontinued in 1881.

Today's coffee stop is brought to you by Cup of Joe - a vintage coffee shop.  

Mister orders our coffee to go while I take a peek in the shops at the back of the building.  There are a lot of them, but I'm either not in the mood to shop or just don't see  "must haves."  Striking up a conversation with several others in the shop, we almost sit, but change our minds and head back on the road.  Again, it's cold out and we are a bit worried about the temperature changes that happened at home.  As we drive, the trees and bushes along the side of the road become more and more covered in either frost or a freezing fog/rain.  Brrrr.

Entering Coleman, TX

There is a quilt shop open here and I want to check it out.  Here is the link to Kelly's Quilting Corner so that you can peek in if you wish.  What a fun shop.  

Mister has been absent for a bit but he appears at last and visits as well.  When we leave the store, he says, "You have got to try the breakfast taco across the street."  Ahhh, that's where he was.  He continues with, "It's the BEST chorizo/egg taco I've ever had."  Now, anyone who knows my sweetheart knows that I have no choice now.  In we go.

It's a great, little, family run shop and they are even making their own tortillas --- to order.  No machine, hand-rolled and all.  OMG.

It is soooo good, but also sooo big.  How did Mister eat two of these (yep, he ordered again with me)?  I'm stuffed.

Also in Coleman is the Brandin' Wall, which as EVERY brand ever registered in Coleman County.

Across from it --- a nice mural.

And right in front of us --- too funny.

The next town we stop in is Santa Ana.

In theory, there is a quilt shop here, but, alas - no.  The town is named in honor of a man in power here in the 1840s, a Comanche Chief friendly to Texans.  Santa Anna visited President Polk in Washington in 1846 during U.S. negotiations to annex Texas.  Moving on - 

I do manage to find a quilt shop in Early, TX.  Here is the link for The Quilter's Hide Out if you wish to see all the eye candy I saw.

At this point, we close to the metroplex and opt to stop at Funky Picnic, because for some reason, we didn't think we'd been here before.  We have and knew it the minute we drove up.  Here is the LINK to the post where I wrote about it before.

And that's it.  All is well at home --- we are going to enjoy the next few days as well before jumping back into routine and "stuff."  Thanks for coming on this journey with us and we'll see you in March with more fun and adventures.  Oh, we're already planning the spring trip.  Stay tuned.