Your Guide to Lake Travis, Austin TX
The gas-fired barrel roaster rumbles along for a few minutes, then a crackle sounds. It’s like a dry twig snapping. Scott Bogart checks a temperature gauge.
He nods, twists a handle, and pulls out a hot sample.
The coffee beans in the sample tube are turning from the delicate green of new lettuce to a shade like straw.
Take 1431 west from Lago Vista, a left on Singleton Bend Road and another on Singleton Bend East, and follow the scent of woodsmoke to the Bistro at Flat Creek Estate.
Not only a vineyard and winery, Flat Creek Estate is a fine destination for delicious food that fuses Hill Country fresh with international style. Local artists also sell jewelry, gifts, and cards from the adjacent Tasting Room.
Reservations for the Bistro are required and easy to come by: call 512-267-6310. Gratuities are not accepted, but you’re welcome to leave a donation for the nonprofit World of Children.
“I hate it that health care has to be about money. It should be about taking care of people. I wouldn’t have made a very good employee. If I see something that needs doing a certain way, I just can’t watch it done the wrong way.”
Walk in to Lago Vista Physical Therapy and you’re likely to catch the tail end of a lively exchange between patients.
From a stationary bicycle, one gentleman notes how crazy expensive it is to replace a bumper these days.
Exercising on a set of steps, another patient says he knows a guy — the best guy — who does body work for less. A series of beep sounds, and it’s time for the first patient to move on to his next drill.
Over four hundred years ago, an acorn fell to the ground, split, and sent out a tiny shoot seeking light. From those humble beginnings came a live oak that is now nearly 60 feet tall and spreading over 80 feet. It’s the central feature of Heritage Oak Park at 875 Quest Parkway in Cedar Park.
For global perspective, in 1615 Pocahontas gave birth to her son Thomas. That year, the shogun lay siege to Osaka Castle in Japan. Closer to home, the tree would have been over seventy years old when the Spanish and French began squabbling over Tejas in 1685. The city of Cedar Park itself wouldn’t go by that name until 1887, when it was changed from Bruggerhoff.