We were looking for something to do, today. We looked through the events catalog for the lakes and prairies area of Texas (AKA North East Texas) and Mineola’s “Invitation to Musicians to play in the Gazebo” started today!! 🙂 So, in true form I map out this whole route …. out on US 80 … stop at Terrell, Wills Point, Edgewood, Grand Saline, on to Mineola. Saw a few things along the way …. Our plan was to arrive at 11 … stake out an area to listen to some bluegrass or country Jamming have lunch see the town and head back using US 69 South out of Mineola stop at the Mineola Wildlife Preserve and on to Lindale pick up TX 16 West over to Canton then 243 out of Canton into Kaufman then US 175 out of Kaufman back to Dallas.
Everything went Perfect!! EXCEPT NO MUSICIANS SHOWED UP!! lol!! We about half expected that, anyway. No harm. We spent the day traveling, and that is exactly what we wanted to do. We had lunch at the East Texas Burger Company right in Downtown Mineola and it Was fantastic!! Excellent Food, Excellent Service, Excellent atmosphere!! Make sure you try it!! AND the fried Pie was Fabulous!! (We had Peach and Apricot) East Texas Burger
We went to the Mineola Historical Museum in the old post office (It’s free, but, donations are accepted … and if you are like us you will be compelled to leave one) That place was amazing!! So many artifacts to see, it is well worth the time it takes to look.
We learned the there were two rail lines in Mineola in the old days. Texas and Pacific ran Dallas to Mineola and International and Great Northern ran Mineola to Tyler.
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