Adventures including a visit to, drive thru and/or stay in Texas
Camping at another Texas State Park Texas may be almost 96% privately owned (an anomoly for the US), but the % we’ve seen in state parks (not to mention the 1.7% in National Parks) is very nice, including this campground in Davis Mountains State Park. There was no cell service Read more…
In Big Bend National Park (#60-Revisit) One of our favorite National Parks, so far (top 5?), a place in Far West Texas where night skies are dark as coal and rivers carve temple-like canyons in ancient limestone. Here, at the end of the road, hundreds of bird species take refuge Read more…
Two stops along the Mexican border… …with a few Border Control Checkpoints and wide fluctuations in temperatures. First stop, Laredo, where it was ~90, the day we arrived, but didn’t break 50 the 2 days we were there. Next stop, Del Rio, where it started warming up and even broke Read more…
Near the mouth of the Rio Grande Just east across the bridge from Port Isabel, we camped near the southern end of the island. South across the bay is Boca Chita, where one can find the Southeast point of Texas, the SpaceX Launch Site, and the mouth of the Rio Read more…
Looking across the lagoon at Padre Island About midway between downtown Corpus Christi and Padre Island National Seashore, the two places we visited from here, twice each in 4 days. It was pretty windy during our time in Corpus Christi, with temps that broke 80 the 1st 3 days, and Read more…
As deep as we’ll get this trip, outside Austin We camped a bit east of the Capitol of the Lone Star State, where the stars at night were big and bright. We took a couple of trips into Austin and a day trip 50+ miles west to the Hill Country, Read more…
Home to Columbian Mammoths & Dr. Pepper Also home to Baylor University, of interest mostly because Gail’s baby brother spent his freshman year there. It wasn’t a good fit for him, hence one year. We drove by the stadium a few times, but never made it on campus. Anyway, short, Read more…
Warmer, a little rain, a little sun, a little hiking First stop for our 5+ weeks in Texas, was at Martin Dies, Jr State Park. We got a beautiful spot right on the Steinhagen Reservoir, where the Gum Slough enters…kind of a “corner lot”. It is supposedly one of the Read more…
First Stop, Amarillo, Texas! After 6 weeks in New Mexico, it was time to head Northeast, across the Prairie and Midwest, to Pittsburgh by May 3. We made it out of New Mexico on I-40 and half-way across the Texas Panhandle to Amarillo, our longest driving day since we took Read more…
And more WIND!!! We spent the last 4 nights in Carlsbad, New Mexico (actually at the KOA 20 miles north). We spent the first day hanging in Lizzy in High Winds. The next 2 days we drove ~140 miles round trip / day, to Guadalupe Mountains National Park (#59-Revisit), to Read more…