It’s not like this is a major trip, but I picked up a rent car, and pointed it on down the road to San Antonio.
What I’ve picked up from the history books, and more, from just doing the commute, a point made early in Lone Star Nation was that the geology, the geography of the Hill Country was part of the pattern and dictated the history.
No big rivers. No Hudson. No Mississippi. But a lot of smaller, clear running streams that gently drain the hills. Everything is worn down by the weather. Fertile soil. Rich land, and lots of it.
I was headed south again. Under a sodden, gray sky, working my down the interstate, thinking about what those first settlers saw.
