We have been on the BBQ trail the last few days. The Peach Pit in Fredericksburg served good, sweet, delicate flavored pork ribs. Coopers of Llano is great, old style BBQ. You buy the meat by the pound: pork, brisket and cabrito (goat) and cole slaw or potato salad. Bread, beans and jalapenos are free. A little too salty for us. 
Our undisputed favorite is the Salt Lick in Driftwood (outside of Austin). Seen on the back of their t-shirts:
"You can smell our pits for miles", we wish we could save the aroma and bring it back home. They serve German potato salad, an Asian inspired cole slaw (I think owner Mrs. Roberts is Japanese), really flavorful beans and bread that tastes like cake. Did I mention the ribs? Don't even bother with the other stuff, just order the pork ribs. Sweet, smoky, just enough bite to the bone, not drowning in sauce - oh boy! We even went back a second day. We are reduced to eating cereal for dinner, just so we can zip our jeans.
"You can smell our pits for miles", we wish we could save the aroma and bring it back home. They serve German potato salad, an Asian inspired cole slaw (I think owner Mrs. Roberts is Japanese), really flavorful beans and bread that tastes like cake. Did I mention the ribs? Don't even bother with the other stuff, just order the pork ribs. Sweet, smoky, just enough bite to the bone, not drowning in sauce - oh boy! We even went back a second day. We are reduced to eating cereal for dinner, just so we can zip our jeans.
This is one of the pits at the Salt Lick. And yes, that bookmark Russ was holding is from the Four-Eyed Frog bookstore back home.
you sure are looking like you are enjoying yourselfs... and the weather is being nice too. do they have recipes you can bring back to gualala. glad to see pictures of you together. Cindy
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