From Matt - Have been back home for several days now, gone through lots of pictures and added over 50 to the pages where there were none before. If you are still interested I have added pics to the following blog entries : Catch Up; Amber Mountains; 3 Amigos...; Waiting in Joburg and Paris at last... . Vance and Rush have the best safari pics so there will be more animal pictures when I get them from Vance. This will probably be the last blog and I had a few things still to say about our last stop - Paris. Still [View Full Entry]

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I guess you can say we slept okay last night considering that we were scrunched in between Jerry's All Night Lounge and Peter Pipers 24 Hour Pizza Parlor !! Tim stayed up for a little while last night searching the open skies for any form of life he could find with no avail. He really had his heart set on seeing a UFO while we were in the area, but I guess it just wasn't meant to be. Yes, I'm serious, he was up for hours watching the empty sky waiting for those blinking lights to come hovering over the Wal-Mart [View Full Entry]

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Thanks for coming by to subscribe to our Blog. We will be leaving DFW in the afternoon of June 30 and arriving in London early morning of July 1. Rush has been packed for several weeks ! I have had my stuff laid out on the floor for several days now. Gayle says I will need to shake out all the scorpions before I pack! Probably not a bad idea. We have a full schedule in London. I told Rush there were more things to do in London than we have time for, so it was up to him to make [View Full Entry]

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Hello all! We have been catching up on schoolwork, staying in State Parks across Texas. The last few nights we have been at beautiful South Llanos River State Park, where the night stars were breathtaking. We have two sessions a day, usually a morning of math and language arts, and an afternoon of more experiential stuff: hiking, zoology, geology, and so forth. The breaks in between are spent in collaboratively preparing meals, cleaning and keeping camp, but we have also found a little time for juggling, some music-making and watercolor sessions. We are heading West again today, and stoppe [View Full Entry]

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by Carrie Crain aka cc writer aka austin girl http://www.austingirlblog.blogspot.com On a recent sun-splashed Saturday, I decided to escape the searing heat and go exploring in my SUV. I soon found myself meandering down an asphalt road in Fredericksburg, Texas, where, to my wonderment, I stumbled upon the nostalgic and romantic Hangar Hotel. Situated behind the Fredericksburg, Texas Rodeo Fairgrounds—the oldest in the state—just two miles south of Main Street off of Highway 16, the Hangar had me believing I had descended back in time. As I maneuvered my vehicle into the parkin [View Full Entry]

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The ride to the winery in Stonewall was filled with wildlife to say the least. The worst thing that I have ever seen was all of those spiders that came out of the desert and crossed the highway under our car! The tarantulas were awful! I do NOT like spiders. It was incredible to be going 70 down the highway and see a spider so big on the road that you see it lift it's leg while it's walking.... and that is exactly what happened. We wanted pictures of the, so we stopped the car on the totally deserted highway [View Full Entry]

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The first leg of our westward journey took us from Fernandina Beach FL to Ft. Gaines, GA, on the Alabama border. We stayed in a nice campground on the banks of Lake Walter F. George, and played the golf course in the George Bagby State Park. The next stop was Montgomery, AL, where we spent a pleasant evening listening to the tornado warning sirens. Fortunately, no tornadoes came our way, but thunderstorms did knock out the power for several hours in the middle of the night. The third day found us at the Lefleurs Bluff State Park in downtown Jackson, [View Full Entry]

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Friday, March 9, 2007: San Antonio to Kerrville Today we drove to Kerrville-Schreiner Park. It was recommended to us by someone at Falcon State Park who I talked to while I did laundry. This is a very nice place to camp and has full hook-ups and would be shady in the summertime. It’s so nice to talk to other campers and get the benefits of their experience. We are northeast of San Antonio in Hill Country. As we drove out of San Antonio it was apparent that we were entering a different geological area with the hills quickly apparent. This is [View Full Entry]

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We've decided we like Texas. The people are definitely Texans first, everything else second. Everything is emblazoned with either a lone star, a steer head (something to do with football, I think) or the state itself. A case in point is my brekky as pictured below. After San Antonio, we stopped in a random spot on the map called Fredericksburg in the 'hill country'. Turned out it was a really sweet little town, famous for being founded by Germans. They have a smokehouse that makes bratwurst, bierkellers and an annual Schutzenfest where the locals can mix beer and guns. As Nic [View Full Entry]

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