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Originally Posted by phenomshel
Don't forget, RSE, Glen Rose with its dinosaur tracks and fossils is a fairly short trip (150/200 miles) from either SA or Austin, too. (Being rockhounds/lapidarists they might like that). I say "fairly" short, because in Texas we measure distance differently, it seems. I have driven two hours each way for lunch with a friend in Texas and thought nothing of it, something that makes my inlaws up here shake their heads and question my sanity.
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Lot's of roadtrip length things to do from that area. Goldwaithe and all the commercial Pecan orchards (which sell to the public) are 150-200 miles away. Palmetto park is only 60 miles east of S.A., and south and east of S.A. is the oak belt, with some of the prettiest wildflowers in Texas during the season. Fossil wood is common 70 miles south of S.A. There's even been Gold and silver (very small quantities) found in the igneous areas of the Hill Country.