I didn’t have a horse in last weekend’s race. But it was still important to me to watch, and I watched with baited breath until American Pharoah crossed the finish line and let out a yell. For the first time in 37 years (and the first time in my lifetime)…
This was my second attempt in as many years to spend Memorial Day weekend in San Antonio. Last year the weekend called rain and since I had booked a room with a free cancellation policy, I cancelled about a week before. This year, I’d booked a hotel in a fantastic…
In April I drove back to Ennis to see again the Bluebonnet Trails, having first visited around the same time in 2014. The map and directions can look a little confusing, but the good news is that once you get off the highway and start on the side roads, the…
I took a mini-road trip last weekend, able to head out early morning and make it back for a late lunch. I drove out to Ennis, only about 30-45 minutes away from downtown Dallas, to see the bluebonnets growing there and travel along the Bluebonnet Trail. I haven’t made a…
The other day I was talking with someone about caves I read about in Texas, which got me thinking about Luray Caverns in Virginia. Now, I might be biased, but the caverns in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley are absolutely incredible. These are also, I am told, the largest caverns in the…
Texas escaped winter this year, or so I had begun to think. Earlier in February there were brilliant, sunny days in the 70s, including one lovely weekend where my sister and I headed out for frozen yogurt and ate it on park bleachers under the sun. While the rest of…