Finding Our Way
We headed into Mississippi and passed the NASA John C Stennis Space Center. The INFINITY Science Center is located there and is a museum open to the public and offers a blend of space, Earth science, and engineering and technology content. We would have stopped if we had known about
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As we make our way through Louisiana we drive on elevated roads through the swamps and bayous. Now and then we encounter signs for cracklins and boudin and eventually cross the Mississippi River. This means we are officially in the east. We meander our way through town and get to
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We managed to make it through the construction and major road mess which went from Beaumont, Texas to Layfaette, Louisiana. It was a tough day of driving with lots of traffic and orange cones and machinery everywhere. As we drove through Louisiana we were drooling over all the food billboard
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We drove from Austin to Lumberton and took backroads the whole way. We will do anything to avoid Houston and to allow us to see the great Texas countryside. And boy, are we glad we did. It was a long drive but it was terrific. It was a pretty windy
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McKinney Falls State Park! Now this is a campground I have been hearing and reading about for years. Everyone says how wonderful it is and we had to go. So…we went! The state park is in the southeast of Austin and literally right in the city. This is perfect if
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Pedernales Falls State Park is approximately 40 miles east of Fredricksburg and about 12 miles east of Johnson City. Fredricksburg is in the heart of Texas hill country and is a quaint, charming, German town full of shops, restaurants with German cuisine, and over 50 wineries. It is definitely worth
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As we headed east on I-10 through Texas we passed Fort Stockton and headed on towards Tunis Springs where we made a lunch stop. We continued on towards Junction with plans to boondock at the city park located along the river. Most state parks in the area were closed for
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Alpine, Texas.! The last time we were here has been maybe ten years ago when someone we were traveling with developed gall stones while we were at Big Bend State Park. Where is the closest hospital (according to the rangers), well it’s Alpine. So we made a bee line to
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The Marfa Mystery Lights – The lights have been a mystery since a young cowboy first spotted them in the 1880s. Ever since then people have traveled from all around for their chance to see the lights. There are many theories about these lights and where they come from. Whatever
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We headed east from Benson through Arizona and all the way through New Mexico and finally entered Texas! We arrived at the entrance to the state park at 3:59 pm and the Visitor Center closes at 4pm and the front gate locks at 5pm! The ranger at the front gate
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