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Bastrop, Texas
txlawdog
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We were thinking about going for a few days to their yesteryear celebration. Has anyone ever been oe live around there? Its a little East of Austin.
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You ever heard of this? I was looking at google maps and saw this on the map... Pretty interesting.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13984963@N03/3849693338/
Until that's complete, Bastrop is some of the most backward country you'll find in Central Texas.
I'm talking DELIVERANCE backward and I'm not just saying that.
Whenever there's a shooting reported on the Austin news it either happened in East Austin or Bastrop....every time.
Bastrop has sent at least two innocent men to prison for twenty years apiece for rapes they didn't commit.
The Sheriff there also got busted a while back for using inmate labor to build barbecue grills that he sells for money on the side.
I used to play golf at Pine Forest there and it's OK.
They also have a very nice downtown area where the buildings have been restored to their original conditions IIRC.
I never heard of the yesteryear celebration. I was only ever there to play golf and for work.
I also rode my mountain bike on the Bike Ranch they have there. It had some of the most challenging trails I've ever been on...I even cracked both kneecaps there.
This same bike ranch is where I felt like I had fallen onto the set of Deliverance.
Creepy, creepy critters out in them woods....[8)]
Oh yeah, I almost forgot.
Bastrop is home to the somewhat famous "Lost Pines."
They're lost because nobody knows why they are there since they are so isolated from any other pines.
There's also a high falutin' Hyatt Lost Pines Resort there now.
Did you play the part of Ned Beatty?[:D]
No...but I did wish I had a compound bow when I was at the clubhouse/office...[;)]
Yep, famous for BBQ if memory serves.
The best BBQ around those parts is in Lockhart, Elgin and my favorite in Taylor.
If you go to any of these places DON'T ASK FOR ANY SAUCE....
They'll be insulted.
It's some of the moistest, tastiest meat you will ever have so they don't feel the need to sully it with sauce.
A few of them actually have some sauce available but the best ones only have hot sauce if you want that.
The truth is that you can get premium quality barbecue all over that area.
Bastrop is rapidly getting gentrified by the Austinites who get tired of paying so much to be "weird."
Until that's complete, Bastrop is some of the most backward country you'll find in Central Texas.
I'm talking DELIVERANCE backward and I'm not just saying that.
Whenever there's a shooting reported on the Austin news it either happened in East Austin or Bastrop....every time.
Bastrop has sent at least two innocent men to prison for twenty years apiece for rapes they didn't commit.
The Sheriff there also got busted a while back for using inmate labor to build barbecue grills that he sells for money on the side.
I used to play golf at Pine Forest there and it's OK.
They also have a very nice downtown area where the buildings have been restored to their original conditions IIRC.
I never heard of the yesteryear celebration. I was only ever there to play golf and for work.
I also rode my mountain bike on the Bike Ranch they have there. It had some of the most challenging trails I've ever been on...I even cracked both kneecaps there.
This same bike ranch is where I felt like I had fallen onto the set of Deliverance.
Creepy, creepy critters out in them woods....[8)]
Oh yeah, I almost forgot.
Bastrop is home to the somewhat famous "Lost Pines."
They're lost because nobody knows why they are there since they are so isolated from any other pines.
There's also a high falutin' Hyatt Lost Pines Resort there now.
Explain backward country to me please...your version. I say this since Austin is not a place that the vast majority of Texans would want to be associated with their extreme, and I do mean extreme, image of liberalism.
Explain backward country to me please...your version. I say this since Austin is not a place that the vast majority of Texans would want to be associated with their extreme, and I do mean extreme, image of liberalism.
I moved from Austin three years ago and I know what those clowns might call backward.
I'm conservative/Libertarian and I know what inbred, very low IQ, sexual deviants look like regardless of my political leanings.
Bastrop is the closest I've ever seen in Texas to what has been portrayed in West Virginia.
That being said, they also have had a large influx of affluent liberals moving there to get away from the real estate prices in Austin.
Bastrop is beautiful...there's no denying that.
But the locals are a sight to see/experience.
Bastrop is a good 45 mins from Austin with lots of country in between.
It's definitely not even a suburb of Austin...yet.
quote:Originally posted by kimi
Explain backward country to me please...your version. I say this since Austin is not a place that the vast majority of Texans would want to be associated with their extreme, and I do mean extreme, image of liberalism.
I moved from Austin three years ago and I know what those clowns might call backward.
I'm conservative/Libertarian and
I'm conservative/Libertarian and I know what inbred, very low IQ, sexual deviants look like regardless of my political leanings.
Bastrop is the closest I've ever seen in Texas to what has been portrayed in West Virginia.
That being said, they also have had a large influx of affluent liberals moving there to get away from the real estate prices in Austin.
Bastrop is beautiful...there's no denying that.
But the locals are a sight to see/experience.
Bastrop is a good 45 mins from Austin with lots of country in between.
It's definitely not even a suburb of Austin...yet.
It still appears to me that you are stereotyping an "entire community" as being inbred, sexual deviants aside from the more pure environment that the typical Austinite might experience. Can you be more specific as to why you feel this way aside from what you have already mentioned?
I didn't really see them as back woods, but compared to Austin, I reckon were all hicks, which is fine with me!