Fredricksburg, Texas.

Last Saturday my parents and I decided to take a little road trip out to Fredricksburg. I had driven through a few times on road trips, but had never stopped, and they had never been. I also hadn’t traveled out of Austin since mid-April, so this seemed like an awesome little road trip/vacation with my parents. Here’s the first round of photos, more to come!

I’ve been planning on redoing my portfolio on the website, and have been looking through old photos to see which ones I want to include. I came across these that I really liked and haven’t shared before. All taken when I lived in Seattle still.

Taken last September during the fires.

Way out in West Texas there lives a town. It’s a small town, that doesn’t seem to have anything in it until you take a closer look.

Josh and I passed through Marathon on our way back to Austin after spending a couple of days in Marfa. We could have just driven through, but we stopped. We parked. We walked around.

We went into this gorgeous old coffee shop/cafe. The food looked delicious, the coffee was excellent and the setting was perfect. Indoors it was cute and bright, filled with sunlight. Outdoors on the patio, it was great. We sat out there with Sydney and had the best time relaxing and chatting with the owners.

Then a walk down the main road took us by the Gage Hotel, which really does look like an oasis in the middle of the desert, cute shops that I wanted to go into if we had more time (including one showcasing AMAZING photography), unique grocery stores, and another cafe on the end of the block I want to check out if we are ever in the area again.

We only got to spend an hour there. And maybe we saw it all. But maybe there is more there to discover. I guess we won’t know unless we go back.