After a healthy breakfast we left Houston for the thee hour drive to Austin. It was pretty easy drive with some huge freeway networks and best of all lots of fun signage, BBQ and smokehouses and food deals more crazier than the last. $4.99 buffets, take home your desert, buy one get 2 free (probably for each person).
One of the giant billboards that caught our attention was Buc-ee’s a beaver character with slogans like “it’s potty time” . Or “eat here, get gas” or “mom I’m hungry” it started about 75 miles out and repeated every 3 or so… we had to go. The urge was getting worse at each sign ‘I can only think about beavers’ did it…the miles got smaller and smaller until we finally saw it raise out of the prairie. Buc-ee’s was probably the world biggest servo with 50 or more pumps and a store the size of a Woolworths or Coles or bigger selling all the servo stuff plus BBQ smokers, hot BBQ food and souvenirs. We picked up a Buc-ee Beaver T shirt and a brisket roll for lunch, plus some fuel… What a great adventure.
