We took one day and drove northeast to rent beach carts in Port Aransas… Where we picked up these sweet rides… I must admit that I was a little nervous renting beach carts. I mean, I talked to the owner on the phone, warning him that we wanted to take our family out to ride […]
Padre – picking up garbage and hunting Ghost Crabs in the dark…
This time visiting Padre, we drove down the beach several times. There is a feeder road to the beach just after the visitor’s center (there are no roads that are past that); the beach is considered a Texas highway, and all vehicle laws apply (we found that out last year when we got pulled over […]
Padre Island National Park, TX…
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One of our favorite places in the entire US (well, what we’ve explored so far…) is Padre Island!!! This was our third time visiting, and we were able to spend 10 days here this year. The weather wasn’t very cooperative while we were there; it was mostly overcast, chilly, and windy, but we still got out on […]
Texas State Aquarium, yep, MORE pics ;)
We had two favorite places at the aquarium. Our favorite ‘show’ was the dolphins… The aquarium has 2 dolphins. They are kept in a large tank with an underwater viewing area… Topside, Peanut got in trouble for leaning past the rails… For the show, the majority of the tribe sat in the ‘splash’ section. Caleb, […]
Texas State Aquarium, Corpus Christi, TX…
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Padre Island, on the Gulf of Mexico in Texas, is one of our very fav places to visit! This year was our 3rd year to stop here, and even though we usually spend 2 weeks camping on the island, we still haven’t explored all of this area. One of the things that we had NOT […]
Lake Corpus Christi, TX…
When we left Potter’s Creek, we traveled just as far as Lake Corpus Christi, which is south of San Antonio. We had not been here before, and since it is a state park, we had the privilege of renting 2 sites again. At least we had plenty of space to park the van! 🙂 Lake […]
Potters Creek COE campground, TX…
We do love our COE parks – they were one of the first places that we found that didn’t care that we traveled with TEN (gasp!) kids. LOL! I still laugh at how naive we were – the thought that traveling with 10 or 11 kids would have hiccups never crossed our minds when we […]
San Marcos outlets …
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Our morning drive to the San Marcos outlets … Getting used to the humidity took a bit. If the weather looked like this back home, it would be freezing, and getting ready to snow. Here it was 62. While we were at Potter’s Creek COE campground just north of San Antonio, Beth and I took […]
familiar roads to the Boerne City Park in Texas…
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After we pulled out of Kerrville, TX, we drove a whopping hour and a half through the beautiful hill country… On our way to our next stop, we made a short visit to the Boerne City Park in TXwhich is a super cute little town! They have a lovely city park where we stopped last […]
Texas Hill Country…
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After we left Balmorhea, we spent the night at the Fort Stockton Walmart. The first year that we traveled, Fort Stockton looked oh, so big, on the map, and we stopped there on our way to Big Bend National Park in order to stock up on groceries. It was awful – the Walmart did not […]
