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in 1985 to raise awareness about the loss of family farms. The
Farm Aid concerts have raised over $45 million to promote a
resilient family farm system of agriculture.”
Prior to the performance, we will stop at The Domain in Austin
for dinner on your own. Choose from a myriad selection of
restaurants.
Ticket cost includes transportation, orchestra seat tickets, and link
to a digital download of Mellencamp’s new album,
Plain Spoken.
Volunteer Trip Leader: Flo Zydowicz
Houston – Ridiculous to Sublime!
– Two Night Overnight
Thursday, March 26 – Saturday, March 28
$336 pp double occupancy; $426 pp single occupancy
Depart SCPL Thursday, 9 a.m.; Return Saturday, 4 p.m.
Ticket Purchase Deadline: Friday, February 27
(limited to 40 passengers)
Not an
ordinary tour, come see “Hidden Houston” as
well as some of the great attractions that made
this city famous.
Thursday:
Lunch stop at Chappell Hill BBQ
(included) in Brenham for your choice of meat and sides. Then
we visit Bayou Bend, the enchanting home and gardens of Ima
Hogg. Then it is the opposite extreme as we see the outside of a
house totally covered in beer cans! Finally we will go to a huge
Asian market where you can experience a grocery that sells
things you may have never seen before. Dried squid, anyone?
Our hotel for two nights is the Memorial City Westin Hotel.
Connected to a large shopping center via a sky walk, you
will have your choice of restaurants for dinner on your own –
everything from fast food to upscale dining.
Friday:
After breakfast at the hotel (included), we head to
the National Museum of Funeral History, which contains a
fascinating collection of funeral objects, including old hearses.
At our next stop, half of our group will go to lunch at Treebeards
Restaurant, located within a church. Meanwhile, the other
half will enjoy a docent-led trip to underground Houston, a
tunnel system running for miles under the city and housing
businesses and restaurants. An elevator ride to the top of the
tallest building in the city will provide a panoramic view of
Houston. We will switch venues so that both groups get to eat
and tour the underground. Afterwards, we will return to the
hotel, where you may choose to go to Town and Country mall
or to a restaurant near the hotel for dinner on your own.
Saturday:
After hotel breakfast (included) we will go to the
HoustonMuseum of Natural Science. It will be a glorious finale
to our trip, because following this we will head home to Sun City!
Ticket cost includes transportation, hotel, tour admissions, 2
breakfasts, and 1 lunch.
Volunteer Trip Leader: Bobbi Heuss
Hangar Hotel/Garrison Distillery
– Fredericksburg
Lunch on Your Own
Wednesday, April 1, $37 pp
Depart SCPL 7:45 a.m.; Return 6 p.m.
What could be nicer on a spring day than
a drive through bluebonnet country? First we
will visit the Hangar Hotel in Fredericksburg,
a one-of-a-kind hotel that looks like an airplane
hangar fromWWII on the city airport grounds.
Once inside, take a step back in time to the 1940s as we tour
the opulent rooms, the Observation Deck where we can watch
“fly-ins,” and the old-time Airport Diner.
Our next stop will be the Fischer and Wieser Culinary Store
with its many fine sauces and jellies. Lunch will be on your
own along downtown Main Street. A map and tips on places to
eat will be provided.
After lunch, we will head to Hye, Texas for our “Sit and Sip”
guided tour of theGarrisonBrothersDistillery. Garrison’s Cowboy
Bourbon was named micro whiskey of the year in 2013. We will
tour the stillhouse, smell the corn and observe the barrel barn.
Ticket cost includes transportation and tours.
Volunteer Trip Leader: Ellen Mire
Texas History –
Washington-on-the-Brazos
Lunch – Martha’s Bloomers
Thursday, April 2, $56 pp
Depart SCPL 7:15 a.m.; Return 6:30 p.m.
Ticket Purchase Deadline: Wednesday, March 25
As the forces of General Santa
Anna laid siege to the Alamo, a courageous
group of Texas men gathered in a small
roughhewn building on the banks of the Brazos
River to write a new constitution and declare
Texas independence from Mexico. Hear the story of “Where
Texas Became Texas” at Washington-on-the-Brazos, a story of
quill pens and Bowie knives.
Our story begins at Fanthorp Inn State Historic Site, a
wonderfully preserved example of a 19th century country inn
and stagecoach stop. Yes, Sam Houston did sleep here, as well
as Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant.
Lunch is next at Martha’s Bloomers – an amazing combination
of home and garden décor, gourmet food items and beautiful
tea room. Choose one of the following plated lunches when you
purchase your ticket: Chicken salad croissant sandwich with
tomato bisque soup and peach cobbler ORHoney ham croissant
sandwich with garden potato soup and cherry cobbler. Coffee or
tea and a little browsing are included with your lunch.
Purchase your tickets for CA Sponsored Outings at
or at the Member Services Office.
Tickets for outings listed for the first time will be available
Monday, March 2, at 8 a.m.
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