If you don’t really want to wade through 60 days’ worth of posts, I’ll break it down for you: Williamsburg: Stayed in an okay park, ate some good food, did some shopping and geocaching, got a little Colonial American history. Lex had her only real days off during the whole trip. Stone Mountain: Stayed in [...]
We traveled 1400 miles in three days to get from Texas back to Maryland. Initially, we’d planned on taking it a bit more slowly and dividing the trip up over four days, but when I asked Lex if she preferred getting home sooner and having a day off before heading back to work, she voted [...]
Continue reading about Days 58-60 on the road – Grapevine, TX to Dundalk, MD
This morning, I left my sister’s house and headed back to “historic” Grapevine (the little downtown tourist district) not far from the campground. I was on a mission to find another stuffed armadillo for my friend, Anne’s, other son. While I was there, I also planned on finding a few geocaches. The souvenir shop was [...]
I woke up this morning with yet another migraine. Urgh! This is becoming a habit. The hotter the summer gets, the worse these things are. I did pull myself out of bed to spend some time with Lex and my sister before they both went to work. I spent a little time puttering around the [...]
Sunday was Lynn and Shay Day. Since we didn’t make it over for dinner Saturday, we showed up for breakfast the next morning. Lynn cooked, and we all sat around and chatted and ate. It was our first time being in their “new” house, so we got the grand tour. Oh. My God. Their place [...]
Continue reading about Days 54 & 55 on the road – In Grapevine
Chris and Jason brought us breakfast this morning and saw us off, so they got to see what hitching up and getting the rig ready to roll looks like. It always tickles me to show people how the slides work. For some reason, folks are really captivated by that. Site built houses just don’t have [...]
Continue reading about Day 53 on the road – From Bandera to Grapevine
For whatever reason, I woke up feeling worse on Thursday than I did the day before. I’m not sure why, but I do know that my sunburned legs were now covered with small little blisters. I made myself get up and dressed and went into town where I went shopping for souvenirs for the folks [...]
Continue reading about Days 51 & 52 on the road – In San Antonio
Not a lot to report today. After scoring really excellent doughnuts from the Snowflake bakery for breakfast, I visited the local cemetery to find the graves of the Hay ancestors. There are quite a few very old tombstones there, some dating back to the Texas Revolution. The first Hays to settle in Bandera, Alexander and [...]
I spent today steeped in the history of Bandera, and the history of my great-grandfather’s family, the Hays, one of the founding families in this community. Ray Hay, my great-grandfather, was always a bit of a mystery to me. I knew he’d had another family before he married my great-grandma, and he’d been estranged from [...]
Sunday started out beautifully. While Alexis made a big breakfast of pancakes and bacon, I ran to the grocery store to stock up on a few things we needed for our trip tubing down the Medina River with Jason and Chris, who joined us for breakfast shortly after I got back. After breakfast, Alexis and [...]
Continue reading about Days 47 and 48 on the road – In Bandera
