19 July 2008
Weekend Getaway-Back 40 Bed&Breakfast
Posted by Debo Hobo under: Bed & Breaksfast; Flip video; Weekend Getaways .
Debo Hobo dot Com finally purchased a Flip Camera and filmed and uploaded our first video. We are away on a weekend getaway to the Back Forty Bed & Breakfast in Fredericksburg, Texas. The very quiet and quaint town dates back to the to the mid 1800’s formed by German settlers. The main street offers an abundance of German restaurants, bakeries and clothing shops.
I shot this video while sitting on the back patio of our private cabin for the weekend. Driving away from here is going to be really difficult. Fortunately it is an easy five hours drive just southewest of Dallas and is not over priced like many BNBs can be.
Fredericksburg, the county seat of Gillespie County, is seventy miles west of Austin in the central part of the county. The town was one of a projected series of German settlements from the Texas coast to the land north of the Llano River, originally the ultimate destination of the German immigrants sent to Texas by the Adelsverein. In August 1845 John O. Meusebach left New Braunfels with a surveying party to select a site for a second settlement en route to the Fisher-Miller Land Grant. He eventually chose a tract of land sixty miles northwest of New Braunfels, where two streams met four miles above the Pedernales River; the streams were later named Barons Creek, in Meusebach’s honor, and Town Creek. Meusebach was impressed by the abundance of water, stone, and timber and upon his return to New Braunfels arranged to buy 10,000 acres on credit. The first wagontrain of 120 settlers arrived from New Braunfels on May 8, 1846, after a sixteen-day journey, accompanied by an eight-man military escort provided by the Adelsverein. Surveyor Hermann Wilke laid out the town, which Meusebach named Fredericksburg after Prince Frederick of Prussia, an influential member of the Adelsverein. Each settler received one town lot and ten acres of farmland nearby. The town was laid out like the German villages along the Rhine, from which many of the colonists had come, with one long, wide main street roughly paralleling Town Creek. The earliest houses in Fredericksburg were built simply, of post oak logs stuck upright in the ground. These were soon replaced by Fachwerk houses, built of upright timbers with the spaces between filled with rocks and then plastered or whitewashed over. More history…
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You’ve done more theme tweaking I see. Looking good!
My mother always thought it would be neat to have a bed and breakfast. Who knows? Maybe someday!
I would love to own and operate one myself. I is just a matter of finding the right location.
Seems that you really find time tweaking:)
Nice video. Always wanted a flip video. Maybe I can use this as a selling point to my wife. A bed and breakfast is on our list of things to try. Sounds like a more relaxing vacation that some of our hectic trips can be. Knowing us, we would still find a way to cram so much other stuff in that it still wouldnt be as relaxing as it should.
Ok… I’m so jealous! I want a weekend get away… the point of going freelance was supposed to be that I could travel more. Then hubby got a job that requires us to be around all the time. SUCK!
Congradulations on your getaway!
Suz the prices on your site look really affordable….
Yea, they are… depends on where you go but Hallandale is pretty affordable. Unfortunately I can’t take part because of hubby working in retail, which keeps him guessing from week to week as to what his schedule will be. But we’re happy he’s working, after years of being in school!
Love your blog… it just keeps getting better and better! New theme rocks, did you take those pictures at the top yourself?