The other weekend I took a road trip to Houston, a city I haven’t really explored (I’ve been to the Houston area only twice before and both times stayed in the suburbs visiting friends). Since it’s still within Texas, and a relatively short drive, it still kind of felt like…
Last weekend I hit the road to spend the weekend in Houston. Although since I drove down after work on Friday, and came home early Sunday, the goal was really to have one full but chill day in Houston. The primary purpose of my visit was the Kusama: At the…
I last checked in on how I was doing on my self-declared Instagram Photo of the Day challenge about three months ago. And after having really enjoyed posting a photo every day for the last six months, I earlier decided that after June 30, I wouldn’t push to create at…
The first few hours can be tough. There will be some tough patches that first day while settling in when traveling without built-in support or relying on anyone else to get you where you need to go. Maybe within those first few hours even, when you don’t have anyone to…
I’ve been asked a number of times what my favorite thing in Portugal was, and while ultimately there was no one thing that I preferred above the others and the trip itself was an amazing experience, the first thing that most often comes to mind is the Castelo dos Mouros,…
I haven’t been in a power outage in a long, long time. They were kind of fun when I was young and happened at my old house when giant thunderstorms rolled through North Texas, the kind with thunder claps so loud they rattled the walls. There we had a fireplace…