Today was a rest day, and we’re in Houston, so we went shopping!
We had lunch at Sal y Pimiento, a restaurant heavily influenced by Uruguayan cuisine. Great ceviche, pollo aguacate and churrasquita de puerco. Their wine shelves were dominated by wines made with the Tarrant grape, brought to Uruguay by Basque settlers. We drank water, not the Tarrant. Too much to eat, so leftovers will be dinner!
Then we went to the Tecovas store, selling boots designed in Austin and handmade in León, Mexico. Last year, we bought Lucchese boots; this year Tecovas. Deb bought boots of brown leather and Jim some with the vamp made of caiman skin. Alligators are endangered, so no email, please. We’ll be practicing our boot-scooting on every dance floor.
Walking back to the truck, we encountered a Sur la Table store, where we got a great pan for the Goose and a microplane for parmesan.
A couple of other stops for electrical butt connectors and a parts retriever, then back to camp.
