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Space Jams in Houston
Austin to Houston is an easy and mostly pretty drive in the springtime. Stopping for lunch at a park on the Colorado River, just outside of the tiny town of Columbus, TX, we arrived at our Houston RV park by … Continue reading
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Tagged Final Four, Houston, Johnson Space Center, Serena Aunon, Villanova
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Dunkirk in Austin
Our “home is where you park it” sign still hangs just inside the front door of the Woodebago, swinging as we drive from place to place. Now in our 10th month, we love our cozy home on wheels and can’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Chuy's, Huts Hamburgers, LBJ, McKinney State Park, Texas State History Museum, TX
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Riley Reporting from San Antonio
Dear Elian and Gg, It’s great to be here in San Antonio with you. So far, we went to the Alamo. We saw the real building that the Texians (immigrants in Texas) and Tejanos (people who lived there originally) defended … Continue reading
Lee Harvey, Longhorns, and Homeschoolers
Our roundabout route through Texas has put us on a lot of FM (farm to market) roads. Rte 77 North, a long, smooth, two-lane highway lined with primrose and bluebonnets, takes us most of the way from the Gulf Coast to … Continue reading
Cranes, Rain and the Texas Gulf Coast
After two, long driving days, past mountains, canyons and hundreds of miles of flat scrub, we made it to the other side of Texas. Two and a half months since we left the Pacific, we are back at the sea, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, Goose Island, Gulf of Mexico, Rockport, Texas, TX, Whooping Crane
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Letter from West Texas
March 3, 2016 Dear Riley, Hi from Elian and Gg! We do not want to write formally but mom and dad said we had to so here we are. We are in West Texas seeing so much. We camped in … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Bend National Park, Davis Mountains State Park, Lajitas, Marfa Lights, McDonald Observatory, Texas
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Living for Real in Roswell
Did you think we had been abducted? No, we are alive and well here in Roswell, New Mexico, although little green men are all over, poking their heads above signs, decorating doorways, and glowing in the night. The town’s celebration of the 1947 … Continue reading
We Llove Llamas (and Santa Fe)
Santa Fe seems almost entirely built of adobe, accented by wooden beams, red ristras and turquoise stones, and set against an impossibly blue sky (like Crater Lake Blue, New Mexico Sky Blue also deserves its own paint color). We skipped a few … Continue reading
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Tagged Aliens, Llamas, Ojo Caliente, Rockin Rollers, Santa Fe, Yurt
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Entering the Land of Enchantment
The landscape is vast and dry on the road from Arizona to New Mexico. We are used to this now, remarking on how different it must be at home, where everyone is still digging out from the snowstorm. There aren’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Las Cruces, New Mexico, New Mexico State University, Pancho Villa State Park
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