On our way to our next destination, which happened to be Austin, TX, we drove through Boerne. It was such a cute town – reminded us of Fredericksburg with it’s main street lined with tourist shops. We drove along the river, and next to this cute little park, so we decided that it would be […]
The Judge Roy Bean Museum…
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Tuesday we picked up jacks and left the Amistad National Recreation Area. We took a little detour along the border heading northwest… The scenery was much like our trip to Amistad, but I posted this pic so that I could show you something that I found really interesting. Note the dirt strip along the right […]
Lake Amistad National Recreation Area… (Texas :)
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After leaving the Valley Gateway RV Park in the RGV on Saturday, we headed north west on minor highways, through flatland scrub-brush, and several border patrol stations… (that’s just this year -7 weeks- at one small checkpoint) We drove through miles and miles of this…and kept hoping to see one of the monster bucks that […]
The RGV is OK after all thanks to the Valley Gateway RV park in Linn, TX
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Phew!!! After a weekend without, it’s nice to be back in an area with internet service! Sorry I’m way behind… After our very cold night in the McAllen WalMart complements of our generator breakdown, we pulled into Valley Gateway RV Park in Linn, TX (north of McAllen). Truthfully, it was the only RV park that […]
Palo Alto National Battlefield…
Down in the southern-most tip of Texas, is a small, little-known National Park. Since they offer a Jr. Ranger program, on Saturday we drove from Edinsburg to the … where we watched a short film about the US-Mexican War. We really didn’t know anything about the war, before we started traveling, other than the Alamo. […]
generator troubleshooting in our toy hauler
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Last Monday was our day to move from Padre Island, so we decided to head south. We were so close to Palo Alto National Battlefield, that we had to go collect Jr. Ranger badges from this park too. We moved south to Raymondville, and pulled into their WalMart while we looked for a place to […]
Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History in Texas
On Sunday, we went to the the little Baptist church that we had attended the first Sunday we were in Corpus. After church we went out to eat. Of course, we had to go to WHATABURGER!!! because, Whataburger was founded right here in Corpus Christi in 1950. Could we be in the home of Whataburger […]
Driving on the beach Padre Island…
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Sorry I didn’t get this up yesterday – extenuating circumstances – but of course I cannot blog about it out of order 🙂 … Saturday the weather was warming up, but it was still very chilly in the morning. We had really wanted to drive down the beach to the area of the island called […]
Texas Ice Storm – on Padre Island National Seashore
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Our first week at Padre Island National Seashore was such a wonderful experience! We had both warm and chilly weather, but the entire week was nice enough to get outside and enjoy the surroundings. But week 2 was a bit of a different story! We knew that a storm was supposed to blow in last […]
USS Lexington…
While we were camped on Padre Island, the guys went to the USS Lexington, which is located in Corpus Christi Bay.The USS Lexington is a National Historic Landmark, designated so in 2003. The Lexington, was commissioned during WWII, and served in several campaigns in the Pacific theatre. This Lexington (CV-16, Lexington #5) is nicknamed The […]
