San Marcos

This is a college town..... Texas State University-San Marcos is a huge sprawling complex of buildings....... some older than others, but all spread-out on heaven-only-knows-how-many thousands of acres. So sprawled out that the college has buses to take students to and from their living quarters.

Main Street in "downtown" San Marcos is filled with college students and shops that would attract the students.... lots of coffee shops and bookstores, tee-shirt and jeans shops. There are lots of shopping centers, not big ones, but scores of little ones. Makes for a very busy town. There are also train tracks running through town, and we were stopped at a train crossing while a very long freight train made its way from one side of the town to the other.

It was in San Marcos that we learned what the "RM" road signs mean....... that means "Ranch to Market." Where we live now, we see "FM" (Farm to Market) signs.

We thought we'd like San Marcos, but it's a town filled with concrete, busy streets, busy shopping centers. Nothing quaint about it, but I can see where it would appeal to the students. It's a college town, to its very core.

Lots of huge, huge ranches along the roads up there...... I can only imagine how many acres were behind the ornate gates of each ranch. Speaking of the ornate gates..... it seems that each ranch tries to out-do the other with the design of the gates up there.