Nacogdoches, TX May 28, 2009

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An 11 hour drive.
Stayed at The Fredonia Hotel in the historic district. It was built in 1955 and is being fixed up. They had a live jazz band (both nights we were there) out by the pool in a lovely courtyard. I didn't take pictures....cause I'm an idiot....and was too tired to remember to do it.
1. A tree at an old cemetery we went to.
2. One of dozens of tiny cemeteries around Nacogdoches. Headstones of some date to 1700's.
3. A very green and forested road...that's how it looks there....SO different than Pecos.
4. Old Stone Fort: built 1779 as a mercantile house. It served many purposes finally ending up as a saloon. Was dismantled in 1902, stones saved and building recreated on Stephen F. Austin University grounds.
5. A cool old door lock on a building in the historic district.
6. The doors of the string store. They had banjoes, autoharps, guitars etc. and kazoos, and harmonicas and an old dude in the back painting the most fantastic views of daily life in old historic Nacogdoches.
7. Town...they have alot of antique stores and crafts and glass and junque...almost all the old buildings are occupied....very unlike Pecos.
8. The Godtel....haha...get it? It's an old hotel and now houses Bible thumpers of some sort.
9. A mural in the visitors center.
Love, Mary