Category: Travel

First – a quick chat about the trip plans. Our itinerary was bound by a few rules: (1) we needed to get our two Boy Scouts to their trailhead in northern New Mexico by Thursday, June 30; (2) I needed to work 3-4 days of each week we were gone; (3) I wanted to make…

We have just returned from a three-week-long trip West. All five of us left home June 26, and drove up to northern New Mexico where we left the Prof and Jack at a Boy Scout Ranch on June 29 for a 12 day backpacking trip. The little boys and I tooled around New Mexico, Utah,…

Finally, I am able to start posting my recaps of my fortieth birthday week in West Texas!  I wrote most of this as it happened, saving it to a Word doc on my laptop.  I’ve pasted it in here and tried to edit enough so my tenses are consistent, and then spent wayyyy too many…

After saying good-bye to my sister and her family, we drove a short distance away to Fredericksburg, where we got some ice cream and took a short walk along the main street in their shopping district.  Fredericksburg is clearly a town of German origin, and many signs, storefronts, and even their wineries bore German names. …

We decided this year to kick off the summer with a short vacation to Texas Hill Country. Our trip, from Friday through Tuesday, would include a couple of nights in San Antonio with my sister, her husband, and their baby. Then we’d head out to a day at a swimming hole and natural springs, swing…