If you’ve been following along with my blog, you’ll know I initially started it when I went with my friends Debra and Morgan on a perimeter tour of the great state of Texas, which was featured on Texas County Reporter. A few weeks later, my husband, two dogs, and I took a trip around Brewster…
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Exploring the Texas Lakes Trail, Virtually
I LOVE to travel. I could go somewhere weekly, even if it’s just for a drive on a great Texas road for no particular reason. My husband and I have done that pretty often throughout our marriage. Camera in hand, I snap photos as we take in the wonderful scenery across the state. In fact,…
A Texas Virtual Weekend Vacation – The Introduction
While I REALLY love to travel and could probably do it almost every day, my real job and my budget don’t always make that an option. I sell San Angelo, Texas, as a destination for visitors in my real job, so travel is in my blood. The past seven months have been a tough time…
How Big is Texas? – Texas Country Reporter
For those of you who have been following me since I started this blog in June, you’ll remember my perimeter tour around the state of Texas with my friends, Morgan and Debra. Before I left to pick up my passengers in Gainesville where we began the quest, I was interviewed by the great people of…
Hummingbird Beauty with a West Texas Sunrise
Sometimes a blog post needs to be short. Today is one of those days in west Texas. Our hummingbird feeder in our backyard in San Angelo has been incredibly busy this weekend. I took my cell phone out and stood under one of our mesquite trees that holds a few of our feeders and captured…
My Favorite RV Parks in Texas
In April 2016, I left my job in Austin, Texas, to take time off. My husband and I sold just about everything we owned, except for sentimental items that we stored in a 7 1/2′ x 15′ storage unit, grabbed our two dogs, loaded our fifth wheel, and traveled the southwest for a year. I…
Big Bend, Texas, Escapes: Mountains, Ghost Towns, and RV Memories
Big Bend Region If you’ve been following my blog since I first started it in June, you know that I was in the Big Bend Region with my friends Morgan and Debra when we took our perimeter trip around Texas. I’m a huge fan of this area of the state, as is my husband, Dan,…
My Top 5 Most Interesting Small Texas Towns
Having visited a huge number of cities and towns across Texas in my lifetime, some of the smaller communities really stand out in my travels. Here are my picks for Top 5 Most Interesting Small Texas Towns. I think you’ll like them, too. Terlingua – Population 82 – (Big Bend Region) Few places I’ve visited…
In Closing – Final Thoughts on This Texas Trip
This specific quest completed, we’re sharing some thoughts from our Texas trip, all 3,331 miles of it. I asked the ladies to state their thoughts in their own words so here we go. Favorite Food Stops While we didn’t eat every second of every day, food pictures seemed to get the most comments from our…
Perryton to Gainesville on Our Texas Tour
The Finish Line of Our Texas Perimeter Tour Booker, Darrouzett, Follett, and Lipscomb, Texas Day 9 and the final leg of our perimeter tour around Texas found us in the northeast corner of the Texas Panhandle in Lipscomb County. Towns in the county include Booker, Darrouzett, Follett, and Lipscomb. I actually went to school in…