Three lost souls swimming in a fish bowl
Guadalupe Mountains National Park Monday 4/29 Lukas stumbled through the third book of GOT while we stumbled through another “creek bed”. “Creek Beds” in the southwest are actually just long long lines of very clean rocks that were said to be wet once, somewhere between the oceans drying out and the present. Don’t be fooled … Continue reading The Daily – Carl’s Dragon Den
Sunday 4/28 Marathon, TX - Guadalupe Mountains National Park, TX I’ve camped a few places in and around Big Bend, and the Marathon Motel and Park might well be my favorite. The adobe cabins are cute as heck, the fountainfull courtyard feels happy, the tent spots are properly tucked away, the chickens like it, the … Continue reading The Daily – Deserted Dessert Desert
Internet access has been rather sparse on the most recent leg of the vanish journey, so I didn't see the newest Game of Thrones episode till last night. I knew before hand that some people were really freaking out about it. I've heard the term best episode yet used more than once. However, I found … Continue reading Aside – Game of Thrones S8E3 Review
These days, there are few things I dread more than the weekend. The weekend means full campsites. The weekend means traffic. The weekend means crowds, and no parking, and screaming children. Sundays are the worst of them. Sundays mean closed libraries. Sundays mean limited PF hours. Sundays mean closed cafes and geriatric drivers. We’re indoctrinated … Continue reading Aside – Weep for the Week
Saturday 4/27 Big Bend National Park to Marathon, TX The lesser of Big Bends campsites, we decided we’d abandon our Rio Grande Village campsite in search of butter things. Our usually relaxed morning was hastened by a righteous ranger telling us our tents location would be irrigated soon. How soon? Well...the water should’ve been here … Continue reading The Daily – We Got the Bends
Friday 4/26 Amistad National Recreation Area, Del Rio, TX to Big Bend National Park Del Rio is a rather strange place. It’s a sizeable enough collection of buildings to easily surpass any village, hamlet, or isolated collection of dwellings, and eclipse even many smaller towns. However, it appears to consist entirely of one continuous strip … Continue reading The Daily – Real Deal Rio
Thursday 4/25 Lost Maples to Amistad National Recreation Area, Del Rio, TX While my image of Texas is dry, sandy cowboy eyes, I admit there is more to it. Anything that large has to have at least two things going on. I find that Texas has four things goin on-- swampy swemps in the east, … Continue reading The Daily – Shelob’s Maples
Wednesday 2/24 Enchanted Rock State Natural Area - Lost Maples State Natural Area Enchanted Rock is a 62 square mile, 640 acre pink granite dome in the Texas hill country. The park around it includes two lovely campgrounds, a solid playscape, and free ranging cows. I’ve known the park since my days as a wee … Continue reading The Daily – Cluny the Scourge
If you haven’t been to Austin, I’d recommend it. If you have, you know about the food and the music and the people, so I don’t need to tell you about it. The only thing worth saying about Austin at this point is that it is changing quickly. If you want to know what it … Continue reading The Daily (ish) – Austin, TX
Saturday 4/13 New Orleans, Louisiana - College Station, Texas Texas is very deep in my heart. I feel some very some powerful, territorial identification with the place, probably bread into me through UT Football games, good barbeque, and country music. I confess that I am mildly embarrassed of this feeling. That does not make it … Continue reading The Daily – Loner Star
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