Upon a recommendation from one of the Harley customers, we headed north to San Angelo stopping at Cooper's Pit BBQ. Another food adventure, that I'm not likely to repeat. Thank goodness most of our food adventures have been amazing.
Before going into the restaurant, you pick up your meat from the huge bbq "pit". They slice it right there and dump it on a tray. I'm seriously hoping that the tray has been sanitized and I try not to think about it. Randy orders 1/2 chicken and I have turkey. We proceed inside to a deli counter where they weigh the meat and we pick up our drinks and sides. Interesting and typical (we're finding out) for bbq in Texas.
Inside the restaurant are lots of picnic tables back-to-back and we find a spot. The condiments on the table include hot sauce, ketchup, mustard, salt, pepper, a large tub of pickled jalapenos and Parkay margarine, along with a large loaf of white bread. Near the soft drink counter are beans and vinegary bbq sauce. Randy wonders who still eats margarine? He also wonders in restaurants that serve real butter, do people request margarine instead of butter?
The chicken and turkey are just ok, a little dry, the beans bland and the bbq sauce is icky. We weren't overly thrilled with our meal, but the place is packed and everyone else looks pretty happy with their meal. Giant rib eyes, chops and brisket seem to be their speciality so perhaps we ordered wrong.
My smile is huge because I know this is the very LAST bbq I'm eating on this trip and maybe ever!
After lunch we cruise into San Angelo on a highway that is a little nicer than most through the towns of Pontotoc and Brady, Texas. The highway is fabulous, lined with small towns and more ranches. The best part though, is that it's lined with beautiful Texas wildflowers all in vibrant red and yellow. I keep thinking that I should stop and take pictures but I don't. Bad decision! We cruise through the ghost town of Pontotoc and see the most amazing ruins peppered with gorgeous wildflowers. Should have stopped! Because the rest of ride, although nice, there wasn't any wildflowers. I found this gorgeous photo online by wanderingyew2 and just imagine instead of blue wildflowers, vivid red. We were too late in the year to see Texas bluebonnets, they are usually out March through May. The vivid red was amazing!
Arriving in San Angelo was a little disappointing. The town wasn't very friendly and we decided to swim at our hotel, order pizza and watch the CMT Awards show. Exciting night in San Angelo! We picked up a growler of beer from the local brewery, Joe's.
There were lots of cool, old buildings in San Angelo. We found Randy's favorite store "Blls Man Shop" and an awesome mural that depicts the sheep and wool industry of the area. If you look closely it says that in 1943, Texan's sheared over 10 million sheep. That's has to be more sheep than people and that's a lot of wool!
The next morning we got up early to beat the heat. Our destination was Roswell, New Mexico and the weather was forecasted to be 107!!!
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