The wife an I are looking for a way to spend today.
She remembers in Texas Monthly an article about a an archeological find in Waco.
http://www.waco-texas.com/cms-waco-mammoth/page.aspx?id=174
In reading the site, it sits on 100 acres. Sounds impressive and well, any excuse makes for a good ride.
100 miles to Waco from Granbury, with a stop at the Story Book Cafe in Glenrose for a good sandwich, and stop in at the visitor center at the dig site. $16.00 later............
Walk down a trail about 100 yards, enter a building that's about 100 X 100 and there's the dig. All of it. In one building. 100 x 100. But it does really sit on a 100 acre property!
In truth it was interesting and the docent did a bang up job of presenting the material.
There are several remains, full and partial, at the site, which spans about 10,000 years.
We were in awe that we're standing on a walkway looking down on these creatures who arrived here 50,000 years before we did this afternoon, and that their ancestors had drunk from the same watering hole, and died in the same place as they.
It was a good ride. Andd we left before we drank that same water!