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Thursday, November 7, 2013

New Braunfels Wurstfest and Trivia

Here are two pics taken near the entrance at Wurstfest.

There is, of course, a lot more to Wurstfest than this.

New Braunfels has a downtown full of antique stores, bars, saloons, boutiques, and other tourist traps. That downtown area is bisected by a rail road:

Most of New Braunfels and the rest of this part of Texas has nothing on which to build a foundation. The soil is mush. It shifts constantly. Here are three pics that illustrate what this can do to a house over time:

You'd be hard pressed to find a right angle. Even concrete slabs crack and shift and sink. Hillsides FLOW.

Color New Braunfels

Here we go then. This series begins the color.

And now I have nothing left but some New Braunfels trivia and a few pics of the Wurstfest environment.

Last Black & White

The pic below was taken just inside the entrance to Wurstfest.

Later you'll see a color version.

Off the topic, I strongly suggest that EVERYONE stop using Internet Explorer, if you can. I use Mozilla Firefox and it is much better and more secure. I am experimenting with an add-on (MANY enhancements are available for this browser) called Lightbeam. I visit a site and Litebeam allows me to see all of the third party sites involved, many of which do nothing but track my browsing and feed me ads. In Litebeam you can BLOCK those third party sites. Blocking must be done judiciously, but you can eliminate a lot of ad garbage from sites you visit often, like CNN.