As we look to wind up our two-turned-into-two-and-a-half-year road trip in October of this year, we are now paying more attention to routes, remaining national parks (16 at the time of this post), missing states (five) and figuring out how to efficiently get to all of our remaining sites before turning Charley back to the Midwest …
This past weekend we traveled down to Galveston to visit our nephew Kyle who’s serving in the U.S. Coast Guard. After spending about a year and a half at a duty station in south Florida, he’s been stationed in Galveston for nearly four years and he recently put in for another year there. The reason: Alyssa. You may …
What a blessing it has been to be with Jackie, Daryl, Jennie, Rachael, Kristen, and our nephew (my sister’s oldest son) Kyle to celebrate Thanksgiving! Indeed, we all have so much and are so grateful for our many blessings! We missed being with other members of our family who weren’t with us, but we toasted them, …
November 21 — After a couple of long days of driving down through New Mexico and across a lot of Texas, we arrived at my college roommate’s home just north of San Antonio. As you can see, it’s not a bad place to be taking a little break from the road where we plan to …
March 18-20 — Guadalupe Mountains National Park is our last destination in Texas. We drove through some rain to get here, which we didn’t mind, for Texas has been in a five-year drought and they need the rain. Our drive wasn’t too lengthy, and we pulled in in time to get one of the first-come, first-serve …
March 17, 2015 — We noticed this place on the map and realized we were going to be driving right by it, and given that our goal on this road trip is to see all 59 national parks and as many of the other national park units as we can, how could we not stop? …
… of nothing but miles and miles. That’s how my mother described driving through Texas, and that’s exactly what we have experienced as we’ve been driving through this part of the country these last several days. It’s beautiful, but oh-so-very isolated and remote. In every direction, we see ranch land, fences, steers, mesquite trees and cactus-choked, arid land …
March 10-16 – Extraordinary was one of many adjectives we used on a regular basis as we drove through the arid southwest Texas desert and mountains en route to, and then within, Big Bend National Park. Impressive, amazing, vast, beautiful, remarkable, incredible, striking… I could keep going, but I think you’ll think the same when you see some of the sights …
After nearly two weeks with our friends in San Antonio, we said ‘goodbye’ to the metro mix and headed west on I-10 for 300 miles or so, then turned left and headed south another 100 miles. That was last Tuesday, and that trip brought us to the middle of nowhere outside of Big Bend National Park, right on …
