Our day trip to Enchanted Rock took us through Johnson City, Texas, which in our brief drive through it seemed like it would merit a more thorough visit. So when my mom came to Austin to visit just before Christmas, I went with her and my sister back to Johnson City to try its chicken fried steak and check out its Lights Spectacular.
Why chicken fried steak? Because as you're driving into town, the Hill Country Cupboard has a billboard reading "world's best chicken fried steak." Bold words. We needed to investigate. I split the dish with my mom (sorry, forgot to take a pic) and indeed, it was excellent. The outside coating was done to perfection: seasoned, crispy, crunchy and not too salty. The rest of the meal was okay. It took a good half-hour for them to bring our food out, though.
Still, the town's light show made up for it. We weren't sure where we were going but as we slowly made our way west on 290 through the town's center, I spotted this crazy mass of Christmas lights out of the corner of my eye. We pulled off the main road over to what turned out to be the local electricity co-op, which had strung pretty much every tree outside its building with long snakes of lights. I'm not gonna lie -- it kind of put the centerpiece of the light show, the county courthouse's display, to shame. Still, the county courthouse lights, though quaint and actually kind of weird -- they looked like this weird curtain of lights -- weren't bad, either.
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I like how mommy participated in the "peering from behind the tree" poses. I would hate to be the guy who has to roll up those lights at the end of the season.
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