travel adventures after retirement
After a really shaky start to our trip last week (What could possibly go wrong?), we continued on our planned journey, this time we were going all the way to Oklahoma. It was late afternoon before we were roadworthy again, so we knew we would not be driving very far that day.
Last week we were racing around, boarding our house, moving deck furniture, securing plants, and everything outdoors ahead of Hurricane Marco and Hurricane Laura. As you know, Marco was not…
Ever missed an international flight? I want to share my memories from our two-week Honduras trip. We visited the Mayan Ruins of Copan on the mainland of Honduras and then…
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.
What follows is a continuation of my last post; Ireland has its hooks in me! Our 18-day visit to Ireland included seven days at the Seashell Cottage in the Ballinskelligs,…
All who know Steve or me know that it would be Ireland if we could be anywhere in the world today. We had planned to travel to Ireland this summer,…
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…
Here we go. I created a loose itinerary to follow; we arranged for pet care and loaded up the car. Here is the story of our visit to two small…
We had not been aware of many of these Texas small-town sights and are having just a lot of fun discovering what we consider to be exciting places so close…