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 June 7, 2019

Two Favorite Stops Along I-10: Cajun Country & The Gulf Coast

We’ve made the trip along I-10 from Texas to Florida more than a few times. Although we generally try to find new experiences along the way, we have some places that we always look forward to revisiting, and we haven’t yet grown tired of them. We are, however, tired of the horrendous, teeth-rattling stretch of […]

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Categories : Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Travel
Tags : Blue Dog Cafe, Breaux Bridge, Cajun Country, Davis Bayou, Gulf Islands National Seashore, Joie de Vivre, Longfellow Evangeline State Park, Ocean Springs, Shearwater Pottery, Walter Inglis Anderson
 May 25, 2019

The Texas Gulf Coast: Rockport & Galveston

Traveling provides ongoing lessons in the spiritual teaching of impermanence. While we really enjoy going back and revisiting places, things are never the same twice. Natural disasters rework landscapes, places become “discovered” and overrun with tourists, favorite restaurants close, or there are too many people at the local microbrewery and the resident kitty goes into […]

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Categories : Texas, Travel
Tags : Bishop's Palace, Galveston Island Brewing, Galveston Island State Park, Goose Island State Park, Moody Mansion
 May 17, 2019

A Birding Extravaganza: South Texas

While paging through the National Geographic Field Guide to Birds of North America, I came across an illustration of a Green Jay. “I want to see THAT bird,” I told Eric. That’s how we ended up in the Rio Grande Valley for the first time a decade ago, way down south on the Mexican border. […]

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Categories : Texas, Travel
Tags : Bentsen Palm Village RV Resort, Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, birding Lower Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg Scenic Wetlands, Estero Llano Grande State Park, Quinta Mazatlan, World Birding Center
 May 4, 2019

Beginning Our Texas Trek: Hueco Tanks, Fort Davis, & Seminole Canyon

We’ve spent a lot of time in Texas in our six years of cross-country travels. Because it’s directly on our route to Florida each winter, we find ourselves trekking across the state every year. It’s a good thing we like it. There’s a whole lotta Texas between New Mexico and Louisiana, precisely 879 miles if […]

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Categories : Texas, Travel
Tags : Cave Kiva, Davis Mountains State Park, Fate Bell Pictograph, Hueco Tanks State Park, Jornada Mogollon, Seminole Canyon State Park, White Shaman Pictograph, White Shaman Tour
 January 3, 2019

Happy New Year, Y’All!

We’re in the mountains of West Texas, where it’s currently 22 degrees and the landscape is decorated with hoar frost. It is REALLY cold, but it looks very festive. I know that January 1st only has as much meaning as we ascribe to it. Nonetheless, there’s something about the dawning of another year that always […]

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Categories : Musings, Texas
Tags : New Year's Resolutions, winter in West Texas
 May 13, 2018

Roseate Spoonbills And Historic Beauty: Galveston, TX

We’ve been planning to visit Galveston Island for years. In 2008, we made reservations for two weeks at the state park, but Hurricane Ike flattened the park just weeks before our arrival. “Sorry to inform you…” read the email telling us that the park would be closed indefinitely. So we rerouted ourselves south to Goose […]

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Categories : Texas, Travel
Tags : East End Historic District, Galveston Island, Galveston Island Brewing, Galveston Island State Park, Roseate Spoonbills
 May 5, 2018

Beyond The River Walk: San Antonio, TX

Mention San Antonio, and you’ll hear, “Don’t miss the River Walk!” It’s true. You really don’t want to miss the River Walk. It’s the centerpiece of the city and a lovely place for a stroll. But there’s so much more to San Antonio. We were last in town 10 years ago, and only for two […]

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Categories : Texas, Travel
Tags : Alamo, Biking Missions San Antonio, Cure San Antonio, Japanese Tea Garden San Antonio, Las Canarias, Mission Concepcion, Pearl Brewery, River Walk, San Antonio, San Antonio Botanical Garden, San Antonio KOA, San Antonio Missions, Southerleigh Fine Foods and Brewery
 April 23, 2018

Exploring A Crystal Cavern: Sonora, TX

At the edge of the Texas Hill Country lies a place so unique “its beauty cannot be exaggerated, even by Texans.” That’s what Bill Stephenson, founder of the National Speleological Society said about the Caverns of Sonora. Well, that piqued my interest. And when I read that the caverns are filled with a vast array […]

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Categories : Texas, Travel
Tags : campground Caverns of Sonora, caverns in Texas, Caverns of Sonora, helictites
 April 15, 2018

Big Bend Bookends: Terlingua & Marathon

We like off-the-beaten-path towns. The smaller and quirkier, the better. At either end of Big Bend National Park lie two such gems: Terlingua and Marathon. Both are in remote West Texas. Both have breathtaking night skies filled with shimmering stars that stretch to infinity. Both attract people who are happiest when coloring outside the lines of […]

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Categories : Texas, Travel
Tags : 12 Gage Restaurant, Eve's Garden B & B, Gage Hotel, Marathon Motel & RV Park, Marathon Texas, St. Agnes Church, Starlight Theatre, Terlingua, Terlingua cemetery, Terlingua Ghost Town, Terlingua Trading Post, White Buffalo Bar
 April 5, 2018

Big, Beautiful, Big Bend National Park

Thank you, dear friends, for your compassionate, generous, and supportive comments in response to my last blog post. While this blog is primarily about our travels, everything that happens along the way is part of the journey. I don’t write about every flat tire or mosquito bite, but I do write about the big challenges. […]

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Categories : National Parks, Texas, Travel
Tags : Balanced Rock, Big Bend National Park, Boquillas Canyon, Burro Mesa Pouroff Trail, Chisos Canyon, Grapevine Hills Trail, Hiking Big Bend National Park, Lost Mine Trail, Panther Junction Visitor Center, rafting Big Bend, Rio Grande, Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive, Santa Elena Canyon, Study Butte RV Park, Window Trail
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