Wednesday, April 7 - Afternoon & spend the night
Thursday, April 8 - All day & all night
Friday, April 9 - Until noon.
We've planned a Jamaican cruise on the Sabinal aboard the S.S. SplishSplash. The SplishSplash is a famous, and much sought-after, Hill Country paddleboat. I've made a list, and I'm checking it twice - Pina Coladas, mangos, Bob Marley & Willie Nelson.
The directions I received start like this:
"No address that the GPS will recognize."
Here's a bit of history from The Handbook of Texas Online.
Utopia, located in the Sabinal (or Ugalde) Canyon, is on the Sabinal River at the junction of Ranch Road 187 and 1050, twenty-three miles north of Sabinal in Uvalde County. ...
Settlers had friendly contact with Tonkawa Indians who had come to plant crops for their people, who were due to come later. The Kickapoos raided many times during the early years. Lipan Apaches captured Frank Buckelew in 1866 and held him captive for eleven months. They also raided Mr. Kincheloe's home that same year while he was away. His wife, Sarah, Captain Ware's daughter, was lanced seventeen times, and Mrs. Ann Bowlin was killed. Warfare continued until 1876. Kincheloe moved his family to land a mile north of Waresville, where he built a two-story home in 1873, marked off and sold lots, and donated land for churches, a park, and a school. In 1884 a survey for the town of Montana was filed in Uvalde County, and the post office was moved from Waresville to Montana. When they learned that another place in Texas was named Montana, residents renamed the place Utopia.
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