Just a quick post here, as our first day near Dallas/Ft. Worth is full of errands so I should get going. Hico That top image is from the small town of Hico, where we spent one night on our way north from Austin. It’s a super charming town, with a revitalized main street and shopping […]
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Austin = D.C. with Cowboy Hats
I joked last night to Tracy that Austin, Texas, seems just like Washington, D.C. but with different hats. He looked around, at the hordes of sweaty soccer players and the hipster parents with feral children—all at the brewery where we were sitting—and he totally agreed. Except that the only cowboy hats around were on the […]
Hiking Texas’ Hill Country
My Texan friend, Karen, told me that this central region (the Edwards Plateau) is lovely, and right she is; it’s unlike any part of Texas we’ve seen. Not to imply Texas is generally unlovely, but this area is special. We’re in Garner State Park, along the Rio Frio, west of San Antonio. Right now it’s […]
I’ll Meet You at the Gator, But First I Gotta Get Around This Turkey
I texted that to Tracy yesterday afternoon while we were both hiking here at Choke Canyon State Park in south Texas. He was up ahead, and he’d found an alligator in a shallow part of the lake, so he texted me a heads-up in case I wanted to see. I did! In my rush, I […]
On the Road Again 🎶
And man does it feel good. Yesterday, we finally pulled out of Brownsville, Texas, and drove north for a couple of hours, including through a customs checkpoint where the dude with the gun glanced in Tracy’s window then said to him, “Just you and the two dogs then, huh.” I usually keep quiet in these […]
Oh So Brownsville
Tracy saw a stray dog in Lowe’s the other day, just trotting down the aisles like it lived there. Then he heard an announcement over the loudspeaker: “If anyone’s lost a tan dog, it’s in plumbing.” Well, that’s optimistic on several counts. Next, an employee tried to shoo it out the front doors, but it […]
Rocket Ranch
A big attraction near Brownsville is SpaceX, a half-hour from us near Boca Chica Beach. This huge facility—with the Starbase production site on one side of the road and the launch pad on the other—draws in gawkers of all types, some who want to be up close during launches. Rocket Ranch is a campground that […]
Situating, Helicoptering, Celebrating
Getting Situated in Honeydale We’ve been here about three weeks, but I still stumble when friends ask how I like our new winter digs. They’re asking and I’m stumbling because, several times before we got here, I talked about how this could be the place we pick to come back to each winter. But the […]
Inauspicious Start to a Promising Winter
We had one hell of an interlude between camping on the beach near Galveston and landing at our winter spot in Brownsville. Going South The plan had been to beach camp all the way down the Gulf, but we had a follow-up doctor’s appointment in Houston, so we booked at a state park near there […]
Camping in the French Quarter
This was Tracy’s idea six months ago, and it’s an awesome one: Let’s make Thanksgiving special by spending it in New Orleans. FQRV He booked us a week in an RV park that’s oddly located right where a person would want to be: just a couple of blocks away from the French Quarter and Garden […]
