Today, Rhonda Holley and her mother, Donna, joined me for an outdoor adventure designed to get us away from home, document two metal cages, and have lunch at a German restaurant in Walburg.  The first destination was Dessau that turned out to be somewhere in the Georgetown area that was so built up we had no idea where the old part of town was.  We gave up and headed for the restaurant.  The Walburg restaurant is in an 1880s building and has good atmosphere.  Lots of German posters and Bier steins.  We had the buffet and found the macaroni and cheese and red cabbage to be exceptional.  Then we visited the owner of a metal cage that he had turned into a storage shed.  It was most unusual (see photo below) and hotter than August in Presidio on the inside.  The sides were made of strap iron but the owner has covered them with tin.  More photos and details on the website under Cages and Cells.

In Walburg, we saw a rock calaboose that I had heard about but had forgotten about it.  I don’t know what the original door was like but if it was solid this would have been an oven inside because the only visible ventilation are the two very small windows.

Walburg Calaboose