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Humming Engines, Slamming Doors & Muffled Voices: Our Trip to Seminole Canyon State Park, Texas

When Katherine Friesenhahn headed on an overnight journey, stopping at an empty, peaceful state park, she didn’t expect to wake up in the middle of a boy scout pow wow!

Turning Point: The Beginning of our RV Travels – Lost Maples State Natural Area, Vanderpool, Texas

From her very first mile in the movable home, Katherine Friesenhahn knows that RV’ing is her dream way to travel.

Understanding the Lone Star State – San Antonio, Texas

Canadian Neilia Sherman finally starts to understa

The Last Things They Saw – Texas, USA

Ian Everett enjoyed one of those small, nano-relat

Spring Loaded – Dallas, Texas, USA

Spring Loaded
Dallas, Texas
Spring is festival season in Big D. And thanks to the welcoming 70-degree weather, blue skies and little rainfall, it’s the perfect time to venture out and enjoy the Texas sunshine. Throughout April and May, Dallasites take full advantage of the springtime weather. The summer months usher in a whole new scene: blaring [...]

Wehre to Hit the Hay – Dallas, Texas, USA

Where to Hit the Hay
Dallas, Texas

After a long day of shopping, eating out, or wrangling cattle (although the latter may not be ideal for everyone visiting the Lone Star State), Dallas offers a wide range of accommodation options. Unfortunately, the city is not very backpacker-friendly, and there are no hostels to be found. If you’re [...]

Travels for Two in a Green Ford Escort #8: San Antonio: Missions, Rivers and the Alamo

Like New Orleans, San Antonio made Jeff and Deb feel like they’d taken an exit off the highway into another country.

Travels for Two in a Green Ford Escort #7: Houston, We Have Apathy

Jeff and Deb went to the Johnson Space Center near Houston, hoping to see what the future held for the possibilities of Space. They left very disappointed.

Dallas: More than just yee0haws and oilrigs – Dallas, Texas, USA

Dallas: More than just yee-haws and oilrigs
Dallas, Texas
Dallas. The very word seems almost mythical. With a skyline that’s more beautiful than any cluster of buildings in the world (save New York), Dallas is perched in the middle of a sprawling countryside. Grassy plains, rolling hills, and sunsets that can make you weep surround an ever-growing [...]

A Texas Encounter with Some Ornery Critters

Remember: stay in your vehicle – and always bring enough chow for the ostrich.

“Danger, stay in your vehicle”, says the sign under the hot Texas sun. What was this, anyway? My sister, Frances, and I left Dallas for the hills of Texas, true, but aren’t the Wild West days over?

We are at the entrance to [...]