548 miles later ...

We had brunch this morning at The Acme on the square in Llano before hitting the road back to Dallas. As you can tell it's a HUGE breakfast. And no, I didn't finish it all. But it did nearly hold me for the entire day. Once back in Dallas we made one stop at Jamba Juice for a smoothy and a pretzel and we're done. Good thing I'm going to the gym tomorrow! lol

Instead of following the same path back that we took coming South we drove from Llano over to Burnet and then followed Highway 281 North through Lampasas, Adamsville, Evant, Hamilton, Olin and Hico. In Hico we took a right turn at the Koffee Kup diner and joined Highway 67 to go through Chalk Mountain, Glen Rose, Cleburne, Keene, Venus and Midlothian before finally setting sights on Big D.

At Glen Rose, G mentioned that she had never been to the Dinosaur Valley State Park. One u-turn and a quick circuit through downtown Glen Rose later we were paying our $10 admission to admire dino footprints in the Paluxi River.

A lot of other folks had the same idea and the place was pretty busy. And that's despite the fact is was 107-degrees Fahrenheit outside!!!

Seeing the tracks was pretty cool. For the most part you can walk up pretty close to them and they're fairly obvious though some aren't marked very well at all. There was also water in the river so a lot of kids were swimming ... who cares about dino tracks when there's a swimming hole to enjoy! lol

G and I didn't go swimming but we did visit the gift shop. I almost bought a hat but then decided its dork rating was too high.

Llano was fun, even though the Dabbs Hotel was disappointing. Coopers BBQ is definitely worth a repeat visit, which may happen as soon as I earn my pilot's license.