Group Camping at Palmetto State Park
Palmetto State Park, so named for its dwarf palmettos, is located in Gonzales, TX and was the site for a group camping trip with friends from a local environmental justice group. My partner and I […]
Journey Into the Southwest: Caprock Canyons State Park & Petrified Forest National Park
I haven’t spent much time driving further west than Albuquerque so when an opportunity presented itself to go on a road trip to Arizona, I jumped at the chance. A friend of mine who has […]
Beating the Heat in Central Texas State Parks
If you’re fortunate enough to live in the South or Southwest, you know that October and November can still be considered a part of swimming season. In mid-October and early November we had consecutive 85+/90+ degree […]
Family Fun in Palo Duro Canyon
March can be a tricky month – winter and spring are struggling with each other for dominance and humans are placed in the middle of a battle between goliaths. Although the weather wasn’t quite as […]
Eating with the Deer at Colorado Bend State Park
Colorado Bend State Park was as beautiful as we hoped it would be. We visited in late January (yes this post is super late) and recently spoke with friends who visited in May, and it […]
REI Garage Sale, take 2
The last time we went to an REI garage sale, we were total rookies. We showed up a little before 9am (the sale started at 9) and by then, there were a couple of hundred […]
Camping at Sam Houston National Forest
Prior to beginning our grand Texas state parks travel adventures, I had no idea that Texas was home to four national forests. A lot of our road trips took us west rather than east, which […]
