Glad to have you, Howard!
BTW---you really should try to make the Spring Cobra Club event...it's quite a spectacle!
If you want to be introduced to some Texas "Boot-Scooting" music, try the "old mill" in Gruene, TX...very near New Braunfels, great food during the day and a history of Honky-Tonk musicians playing there that you would not believe!
It's right on the Guadalupe river, too...not bad scenery.
I second the recommendation that you get acquainted with the Bandera/Medina area, too. Kerville has one of the best "Folk Music Festivals" in the country, if you like horse racing Bandera can take care of you, and yes, the roads are very curvy and there's lots of gradient in the geography in that area...can make for some very exciting motoring. Enjoy the Medina River if you can...cobalt blue, so clear you can see the date on a dime at a depth of 10'.
Cheers!
Doug