Day 1 (Saturday) - Austin to Mineral Wells

Here's the more or less planned route for the entire trip. We used this Abandoned Places Road Trip for inspiration (that website has a lot of other cool TX road trips) - We Dare You To Take This Road Trip To Texas’ Most Abandoned Places

First Stop - Mosheim, TX

There's not much of anything in Moshiem, except this old, abandoned, and disintegrating school house.

Mineral Wells - The Laumdronat

This is a laundromat with a name that is an incredibly difficult spelling of the word "laundromat". And it has a washing machine museum in it, along with a bunch of other assorted junk.

Mineral Wells - Mineral Wells High School

Right next door to the famed Laumdronat is the old high school building. It's old, it's abandoned, and it looks a little creepy.

Mineral Wells - The Baker Hotel

By Mineral Wells standards this is a huge hotel. At least you can see it from pretty much anywhere in town. It looks pretty sketchy, and what's up with that huge vent pipe - what were they doing in the incinerator?

Mineral Wells - Nazareth Hospital

While checking out the current location to get the Crazy Water we saw this old structure, so we wandered over. Yep, old and abandoned. An old abandoned religious hospital? Definitely creepy.

Ichiban Asian Fusion

Sushi in Mineral Wells? In what used to be a KFC? Sure, why not!

The food was just OK, but this sign in the bathroom was special and thought provoking.

Cabin at the Coffee Creek RV Resort

We stayed at this cute little cabin in the middle of an RV park. It was perfect for us, and Lexi said that it was the most comfortable pull-out couch that she has ever slept on. 

Day 2 (Sunday) - Mineral Wells

First Stop - Lake Mineral Wells State Park

We took a short hike.

Fort Wolters Military Base

It wasn't exactly the structure we were looking for, but found these abandoned barracks. Waaaaay cool. A few members of our party were concerned that we shouldn't be in there...

Mineral Wells Fossil Park

This was an old borrow pit for a landfill that stopped being used, then after a decade or so of erosion they realized there were a bunch of fossils in it. Once you realized what to look for, there were A LOT of fossils. Best part? You can take home anything that you find.

Day 3 (Monday) - Mineral Wells to Llano

First Stop - Thurber (Ghost Town)

As you can imagine, we didn't see a whole lot here. There's a big old stack, across from the restaurant with a sign that said "Restaurant". But then there's the Thurber Cemetery. After going through the gate to the road up to the cemetery (don't forget to tie the rope that secures the gate), we found this well-maintained old (and new) cemetery with some educational signage.

Baby Head Cemetery (near Llano)

Named after a grisly act, this was another small, old cemetery with a lot of sticker burrs (according to Lexi). The (photo prop) dolls were already there and we didn't touch them, I swear.

Llano Earth Arts Festival (LEAF)

When we checked into the B&B, the owner mentioned the leftovers of LEAF were still kicking. Apparently people flew in from far and wide for the rock stacking competition. Pretty cool stuff. 

Llano Abandoned Rail Car

OK, so maybe not so much abandoned, as placed adjacent to the visitor center, at the end of the  railroad line, near the Dabbs Hotel. But it was still that kinda small town thing where they put something potentially dangerous in a public area and practically dare you to figure out how to climb up on the thing and avoid the numerous wasp nests within. 

Joe's Bar and Grill

Quality bar on the square in Llano. This was my view from the men's room (consisted of only a trough). The non-ironic deer head meets ironic graffiti.

Badu House B&B

We stayed one night in this B&B in a former bank building. We had the run of the place - no one else was staying there that night. We peeked into every room! Lexi was very excited by the toilets with the raised tanks and long pull chains.