2012-04-05 through 11th Hill Country Rally @ Johnson Park in Kerrville,Texas

We arrived the day before the rally started and were given the 1st spot coming into the park.

I thing it was because Susy has a certain reputation for Bling Bling ... Our spot was very colorful and lively !!

Stan and Connie were just awesome !!

They created and organized the Hill Country Rally and did an A++ job of it 

Stan kicked things off welcoming everyone and reminded us to HAVE FUN

What ever .. That's like telling a duck to enjoy the water :)

I can't say enough about the effort they put in to make sure we had a good time

They handed out goodie bags that included lanyards with name tags

If you were caught in the park without a name tag you paid a fine to the duly appointed Sheriff

On the last day of the rally someone was to win the lottery and collect all the fines !

Man, we didn't win any money but the tags sure helped us remember names

There were quite a few familiar faces and a few less familiar names and a lot of face we had never met

We came away with a lot of new friends which is one of the BIG pluses in RVing

Happy hour is a great time around Hitchhikers gatherings and so we did our best to get Happy quickly

I have no clue why some of these pictures did not reduce when I uploaded them

I Swear I did not start Happy Hour early !!

I sure had fun jamming gidfiddles with John & Christine and Rob

I just mess around but they were really good.

Really looking forward to meeting up again since I have been practicing :)

These rallies never lack for good food and here Mel, Greg & Stan fired up their grilles cooked up a storm

Many in the group are attending other rallies later this year

This group got together to start planning a loose caravan between the August M&M rally in Manistee Michigan and the September G&G in Custer South Dakota

So many decisions to make - Is it time for Happy Hour yet ??

A large group went to Ludin ( Luch/Dinner) at a very good German restaurant in Fredericksburg

I must give credit to Judy Bahnmiller and I think Connie Browning for making the arrangements and calling ahead to make sure the restaurant could handle all of us

The guys were in charge of getting steaks before going to the 11th Street Cowboy Grill

The demands on us are so heavy that we first had to stop and fuel up so we could carry out our mission

We were able to spend more time with John and Christine at this rally and hope to meet up again this year
I can't find any pictures but we set up our Karaoke machine after dinner and had a good time singing

All good things must  end and so we bid farewell to those that had to leave while we stayed on another day and several stayed for another week .. and then there was poor Stan & Connie who stayed until the end of May work camping at Johnson Creek Resort

Many of us that stayed past the rally gathered at the Apple Orchard for some goood burgers

I had to take this picture since Miss Susy pointed out that it fits her life philosophy

I took that as a not so subtle hint that I might have to look for another gig

Thanks Paul for taking so many pictures

This is a neat portrait of the Hauling Hitchhikers that were at the rally

We were not very far from Lukenbach Texas and I would never have forgiven myself if we did not make the trip to see the town that Wayon Jennings immortalized in song.

I was shocked that what you see in the picture is almost all there is to Lukenback

The next day we headed out toward Bridge City Texas to spend a couple of weeks visiting Susy's family

Cya soon