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It's the grand canyon of the Texas, in the panhandle. Our first visit here was in 1984 when we and our little boys were traveling with their Aunt Lou and Uncle Bill. We stayed in one of the Mesquite campsites and did some hiking out from there. Then in June 2014 the...
It's Adrian, Texas, the geo-mathematical midpoint on the historic Route 66 trip from Chicago to LA. We got off the interstate to get gas and to find a geocache behind the Sunflower Station, whose owner inspired the character of Flo in Pixar's Cars. Unfortunately the...
Yesterday was Hampton AR to Mount Pleasant TX with stops at Poison Springs State Park, White Oak Lake State Park, and the Hope Visitor's Center. Today we are traveling Texas backroads all the while watching the Texas DOT website so as to avoid any flooded roads.
We arrived at this most amazing location in the panhandle of Texas and got a campsite. As we were eating dinner, we were visited by a wild turkey! After dinner we did a driving tour which inspired us to take way too many pictures. If you've been there before as we...
Just crossed the Red River thus crossing the border from Texas into Oklahoma. Notable landscape features near the border seen to be vast golden fields and casinos. We're headed to Wichita Mountain National Wildlife Refuge today. Then toward Santa Fe by way of...
What were we thinking? Why did we plan our route straight through the center of Dallas? Hopefully we'll beat the rush hour and make it through this incredible maze of busy highways under blue skies with our gypsy wagon in tow. Ready for some sister time. Maybe even...
From our hotel we walked along the Riverwalk and through the Hyatt property to The Alamo right in the middle of downtown San Antonio. Our initial impression was that it was much more crowded than when we visited in 1974 on our 1st Anniversary trip. We were fascinated...
We left Las Cruces and headed through El Paso across Texas to San Antonio. If you don't already know it, let us tell you that Texas is a long state no matter how you cross it. El Paso to San Antonio is as far as St Petersburg to Atlanta. Saw lots of land,...
Park Video Following our cave tour and after a quick lunch at the top we headed out for our next stop, Las Cruces NM. Our route took us through a part of Guadalupe Mountains National Park in northern Texas. With little time or energy for exploration today, we got just...
Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.
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London’s National Portrait Gallery’s temporary exhibition, “Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens” presents an amazing collection of portraits, jewelry, personal effects, books, costumes, and more to illustrate not only the lives of the six women who married the second Tudor king, but the effort across five centuries to keep their memory alive.
The purpose of our trek to Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham in the southwest of London was to see a recently recovered bronze bust of the Emperor Caligula but we discovered so much more in the recently restored 18th Century “little Gothic castle” built by Horace Walpole.
London’s Imperial War Museum in Southwark founded even as the First World War raged offers insights into the myriad costs of the wars of the 20th and 21st Centuries. It was a most disquieting but valuable reminder of the myriad costs of war.