Lucky Charm’s next two Texas State Parks came complete with their very own official mascots: Bison at Caprock Canyons, and Longhorn Bulls at Palo Duro Canyon. The bison are the remnants of the Great Southern Plains Bison, of which there were more than 8 million at one time. When new railroads after the Civil War made the shipment of tanned bison hides...
Leaving the beach, we headed back to the trees, specifically the Sam Houston National Forest. Alligators notwithstanding, Huntsville State Park is a lovely place, and no, we did not see any actual alligators. (Word has it that they are very small anyway.) Huntsville SP has tree-studded, non-crowded hiking trails, including a 7.33-miler encircling the entire...
Corpus Christi, Texas, sits on the coast in the Gulf of Mexico, just waiting for wide-eyed desert rats like us to show up and fill our shriveled lungs with that moist sea air. It’s also the home of deceased singer-songwriter-fashion-designer-and-more Selena, one of the most influential Mexican-Americans of our time and the #1 best-selling female Latin...
The Lucky Charm’s route onward from Big Bend was “bordering” the U.S./Mexico line, inspiring today’s blog theme as we looped our way down to the south, heading to the Padre Island seashore. It is an interesting time to be in this part of the world, with the rhetoric about the building of Trump’s wall rising to a crescendo on both sides...
Big Bend National Park is the temporary home for droves of snow-and-cold weary RV owners, decamping for warmer temps during the winter. Basking in the sunshine while soaking in the river-side Historic Hot Springs is enough to make anyone forget the term “polar vortex”! But more about the hot springs later. It’s called Big Bend because it’s BIG …… bigger...