There are ghost stories everywhere! We experienced a ghost tour in Galveston just this week and decided to share ghost-ish travel stories from ghost tours we have experienced over the…
This is my downtown Houston part two trip down memory lane to downtown Houston to see what I can see. Please see My Downtown Houston Part One post for the…
Technically this is a travel story because I traveled forty miles to get here. MY downtown Houston Part One is my very familiar old world, from my past life as…
This is how we happened to have adventures in Yoakum an This is how we happened to have adventures in Yoakum and Shiner. It seems like hurricanes affect what we do and where we go a lot these days, doesn’t it? Well, for our last storm, Beta, we took our RV out to Yoakum to a storage facility as a precaution in case of a high storm surge in our driveway where the RV was parked. (We really need to come up with a name for this RV!) We chose Yoakum, Texas, which is over two and a half hours from home because we planned to explore that area when we picked it up d Shiner. It For our last storm, we took our RV to Yoakum to a storage facility as a precaution. We chose Yoakum, Texas, which is over two and a half hours from home because we planned to explore that area when we picked it up.
We had another great adventure in our RV this week and are very close to home too! How had we missed this great park? It is a large park, very…
We went on another RV learning experience journey this week, finding history in the Piney Woods. We never really get in much of a hurry, so left home around midday…
When I was fourteen years old, my family and I lived in Corsicana for a few months. My dad worked for Texaco in geophysical oil exploration, so we moved A LOT! We recently visited Corsicana again. I remembered very little about the town and had no idea Corsicana had so much history to learn, stories to hear about, and fun sights to see.
Finally, we could visit the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park – a UNESCO World Heritage Site. What is World Heritage Site? World Heritage is the designation for places on…
Is a visit to Palo Duro Canyon worth the trip? Absolutely – nature at its finest! This stunningly vivid and brilliantly colored gorge located in the Texas Panhandle gets its…
The sturdy1886 museum building, built using locally sourced stone, at one time was the town’s jail at one time. Today the museum building contains historical artifacts used by settlers from the county and Texas Panhandle. An old school, barbershop, and other historic structures are situated adjacent to the museum to create a mock typical frontier town.
