Tom and Jen bought a truck camper.
Day 195: Sam Houston Jones State Park, LA Warm, gloomy. It’s pretty strange how you can drive a few miles down the road, and you are in an extremely different environment. We are in Cajun country now. We learned that Cajun is short for Acadian, the French people who were kicked out of Canada by... Continue Reading →
Day 194: Martin Dies, Jr. State Park, TX Cloudy, warm, looks like rain. So we crossed to Louisiana just to get a map and travel information. But at that point, why go back to Texas? We spent 5 1/2 weeks there, and there was nothing else we were hoping to see. So we move on.... Continue Reading →
Day 193: Martin Dies, Jr. State Park, TX Sunny and cool. We could easily spend another week at this campground, if the weather held. Today it was in the 60s and sunny. Perfect for taking walks in the park and watching the water with the cypress knees. Alas, rain is forecast for the next several... Continue Reading →
Heading outside Texas any day now. Texas is a great place to visit. I am going to miss it.
Day 192: Tejas Mission State Park, TX Sunny and cool. Sleep, glorious sleep! Ten hours of it! With all of the bar, barbecue and card playing in Austin, we weren’t getting much sleep. Well, we made up for that in this nice little campground in the pines. The Caddo tribe lived in these parts when... Continue Reading →
Day 191: Embassy Suites, Austin, TX Sunny and warm. Asleep in Arvi in the parking lot, the kids woke us early to say goodbye on their way to the airport. We couldn’t get back to sleep, so we went in the hotel and had breakfast and then took showers in their vacated hotel room. Putting... Continue Reading →
Day 190: Embassy Suites, Austin, TX Sunny and warm. We checked out Austin Beer Garden Brewery (ABGB), which was recommended by a few people. They have a large outdoor area with lots of picnic tables. Kelsey wanted tacos (there are so many really good taco places) so we got a recommendation of Matt’s El Rancho.... Continue Reading →
Day 189: Embassy Suites, Austin, TX Sunny and warm. We drove to Fredericksburg where we did some wine and beer tasting. On the way we stopped at Salt Lick Barbecue. This place was a little different than the other three barbecue places in that it was spread out in the countryside and we were attended... Continue Reading →
Day 188: Embassy Suites, Austin, TX Sunny and warm. Dan went into town to explore while Kelsey and Greg went in to work. Tom and I stayed back at the hotel and did laundry and many year wrapping-up tasks: address changes, credit card bills, etc. It felt good to have that work done. We met... Continue Reading →
Day 187: Embassy Suites, Austin, TX Cloudy and cool. Allie departed our group very early in the morning. While Greg did some work, the remaining four of us went to the Texas State History Museum in Austin. We spent several hours there, mostly in the sections which covered native occupation through Texas statehood. It is... Continue Reading →
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