The second day of our Coastal Christmas found us engaged in our typical Sunday activities: enjoying Bloody Mary’s, watching “CBS Sunday Morning,” reading The New York Times. After brunching and napping, we took a long walk along the beach and the seawall, observing pelicans, sandpipers, egrets, herons, gulls and terns along the way. We were…
Texas has more than 300 miles of coastline bordering the Gulf of Mexico, so we decided to spend our five-day Christmas break at Galveston, a coastal resort city and port about four hours from Dallas. Our home for our Coastal Christmas was Dellanera RV Park, a beachfront camping site managed by the nonprofit Galveston Park…
OK, we didn’t spend the weekend in Hawaii, but with comparable temperatures, we felt as though we did. The “land where palm trees sway” may be “green and bright,” but North Texas was just as warm and wonderful on a mid-December weekend. We enjoyed roaring campfires, Date Night al fresco, and long walks under starlit…
We joined friends from our Aluminum Pride group for a weekend at Airport Park on the northern banks of Waco Lake, a 79,000-acre reservoir fed by the Bosque River, which runs for 115 miles through central Texas. The weekend included Cliff’s 54th birthday, so we had additional reason to relax with like-minded friends. After a…
Our Thanksgiving travel took us to the St. Louis area, where we visited Jon’s family. Although his mom lives in Alton, Illinois, our destination for the duration was about 40 miles away at Symond’s Dutch Hollow Village, described by Google as a “manufactured home community.” Jon’s nephew, Adam, lives there in a single-wide, two-bedroom, two-bath…
We received a notice on Thursday from the Loveland Rally Presentation Committee inviting us to share our expertise with other Airstreamers by conducting a presentation at the 63rd International Rally next June. So our weekend excursion to Loyd Park was ideal for putting together a proposal for the committee to consider. In addition to working…
Although our campsite at Cedar Hill State Park gave us expansive views of Joe Pool Lake, a water main break meant we would spend almost half of the weekend looking at water while longing to use it inside Cloud 9. Because we dumped our fresh-water tank a couple weeks ago (to avoid any problems with…
We experienced an ideal fall weekend, with cool clear mornings quickly giving way to sunny skies and mild temperatures. Our campsite was surrounded by a thick forest, making it feel like we had traveled a great distance to get away from the metroplex, when in reality we were only 20 miles from home. This is…
We had planned a weekend camp-out with our Airstream group, a “boon-docking” experience at the Murrin Ranch near Fort Worth. But heavy rains and muddy roads led to the event’s postponement, resulting in a quick change of plans. We managed to find an open site at Cedar Hill State Park, and, despite warnings of chiggers…
If you are in the Dallas-Fort Worth area at this time of year, you’ll no doubt hear that it’s Texas-OU weekend, meaning it’s the weekend of the Red River Showdown–the legendary football game between UT Austin and the University of Oklahoma during the State Fair of Texas. The match between the Longhorns and the Sooners…
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