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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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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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