today (sunday) we hit up the new mexico museum of space history. we had free admission, so we decided to spring for a trip to the planetarium. the museum was mostly a little over my kids heads, but still pretty cool. outside, there were rockets and planes and various space travel artifacts. this giant rocket […]
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one last trip to san antonio.
last sunday, we made one last mad dash into san antonio. we wanted to do a bit of river walking in the more downtown section of the river. and check out some shops and such. you know. and eat. one of the reasons we haven’t gone into town more is the insanity of the roadwork. […]
san antonio saturday adventure
we are still about an hour west of san antonio. maybe later i’ll round up pics of our camp life from the last week and a half or so and write a post. but for now, here’s the tale of last saturday, when i forced derek to drive us back into san antonio for a […]
San Antonio – DoSeum.
i think i’ve already mentioned that our current campground is about an hour west of san antonio. and it’s not a very “fun” hour of driving. my gps isn’t quite up to speed with the most recent construction and traffic patterns. there’s lots of current construction. and it’s just general insanity driving in such a […]
austin, day two.
we started our day two in austin by enjoying our free continental breakfast at the hotel. i determined that texas is the only state that would have it’s own waffle (and waffle iron, by extension). our first actual stop on day two was mount bonnell. it’s a little park, where you can walk up 97 […]
institute for marine mammal studies
so, we have a self imposed rule about when we can add a state decal to our usa travel map on the side of our camper. after much deliberation, we decided that we must take part in an event of consequence. an overnight stay. a local meal. or a local activity. in other words, we […]
U.S.S. Alabama
we are in alabama for the week. we arrived saturday and will leave saturday, so yesterday (sunday) was our only day to do family type stuff. after a few massive thunderstorms passed through, we headed towards mobile, to check out the uss alabama battleship. but first. food. we stopped at this fantastic place on the […]
fort pickens week two.
and now. a recap of our second week at fort pickens state park. we have stayed in a few state parks at this point. in our experience, they don’t usually have sewer hookups, which means you have to be very thrifty with the amount of water (and other stuff), you send down the drain, or […]
national naval aviation museum and lighthouse day.
monday was martin luther king jr day. so after we watched a few youtube videos about him, we headed to pensacola for a day of adventure on derek’s day off. our first stop was lunch. one of my former youth group students is in flight school nearby so we met up with him at the […]
asheville nc week (long post).
after spending 5 weeks at home with the grandlidboms, getting back on the road was a tough transition for our posse. the super cold and often rainy weather conditions didn’t help matters. but we managed to find a few fun things to do and survived our first week back in the camper, near lovely asheville, […]