Travels with  Tex

Happy Sunday, one and all. Well, it looks like I'm still in the "more stuff" category this week. While the nearest city to my temporary...

Happy Sunday, all! This week's adventure is going to be heavy on the "bit more" side. I spent the week at Lake Colorado City state park...

Now we're getting somewhere. Of, course, I'm still trying to tie down exactly what happened in Mineral Wells, but I'm made my way onward...

A while back, I posted about my visit to Dwight Eisenhower's birthplace. And so it felt natural to go to the Eisenhower National Historic...

As I have chronicled here before, sometimes the tides of war can change because of single unplanned action or occurrence. Gettysburg is...

I've spent a lot of time talking about what I've seen as a make my way across the country. And there's been a lot to see, and a whole lot...

While at Bardstown touring the Bourbon Trail, I set up camp at My Old Kentucky Home State Park. The park itself will be a subject of a...

I'm going to step away from the battlefield for this week and explore one of the sadder parts of U.S. History. Almost from the beginning,...

I've mentioned before that single instances can change the tides of battle, even perhaps rewriting the ultimate end of a war. Such was...

Well, that was fun! 440 miles. Two weeks. Two States. 3 State Parks. And one major bucket list item checked off. For this post, I'm...

Man, it feels good to be on the road again. I mentioned in a previous post that I wasn't going to spend a whole lot of time on the whole...

Sam Houston was quite the figure. War hero, politician, friend of the Indian, father of Texas. He was also quite controversial.

San Felipe de Austin. The first capital of Texas

Shiner Beer from the Spoetzl brewery. A brew with a secret.

A review of Copper Breaks State Park. My first park review!

Big Bend National Park. Fond memories and sad news.

Spend the night in a Spanish mission fort!

A visit to Fort Davis, a must see on any trip to Big Bend.

The Million Barrel Museum. Is it a oil tank, a dance hall, a lake?

A trip back in time in a bordello in west Texas.