Days 278-294 – Denton, Texas to Shreveport, Louisiana
After a great week in Fort Worth, Texas, we headed north to the small town of Denton. We hadn’t planned to go up to Denton, but then folks kept telling us what a great place…
Snaps from Caddo Lake
Our last state park in Texas was Caddo Lake and if you’re a Texan, you should go! It’s a surreal lake with Bald Cypress trees that are submerged in the water. It was nothing like…
A Week in Fort Worth
When we set off on this trip, we both had some random spots that we wanted to roll through. For me, one of those spots was Fort Worth, because I was eager to meet, in…
Snaps from Hill Country
Apologies for the lack of posts lately, but we are moving through space and time to Fort Worth and internet has been hit or miss or really inconvenient (like under an awning of a State…
Austin’s Bright Idea: The Story of Flashbak
The story of the Flashbak, a bicycle safety light that was invented by a native Austinite doesn’t begin with a bicycle at all. It begins with a dog named Rockie, a German Shepard that was…
One last West Texas post … Marathon
After a couple of delightful days in Big Bend National Park, we began the long ride north to Marathon. Normally, the winds would have been at our backs. But, a storm decided to blow in,…
Our West Texas Adventure
Way before we ever reached the border into Texas, we started hearing all sorts of comments about what we would find. The reputation that Texas has gained outside of its borders is really quite extraordinary,…
The Palm of God – Chisos Basin
Terlingua is a desert outpost town that reminds us of Slab City (so many things remind us of Slab City in these parts). It seems to be made up of people who want to get…
Cowhead Ranch… or, Welcome to Big Bend
From Marfa, we headed down Hwy 90 to Alpine. We stopped into the visitor center and poked around the older part of town while trying to figure out the question of lodging for the night….
Marfa
Marfa is the unlikeliest town in Texas. It is as if you took the Williamsburg part of Brooklyn and threw it in a blender with Portland’s Hawthorne neighborhood and a big helping of country. Sitting…
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