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George Bush Park Hikes Series #1
I’ve started to realize that George Bush Park is underappreciated. We go there a lot, but it rarely gets my blog love. Sometimes it is hard to drum up excitement about going there. Some of this is due to its proximity – it’s so close that it feels like going to our backyard, and…
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Wilderness, Chicago Style
There was a gathering early this week in the suburbs of Chicago of representatives from each of the North American sites of my company, and I and my boss, Iris, were of the two from our site mandated to go. Neither of us really wanted to, didn’t want to miss time with our family or…
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Bluebonnets and Washington-on-the-Brazos State Park
My best friend and I were looking for a place to take the kids last Sunday where we could all enjoy the outdoors and also find some wildflowers off the beaten path to take the obligatory kids-in-bluebonnets pictures that it seems like everyone who calls themselves a Texan has to take at some point. I…
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Country Roads and New Friends
Sometimes I have read that all you need for geocaching is a sense of adventure. I always found that kind of interesting because I thought everyone HAD one of those. Turns out, not so much. A love of nature and appreciation of the outdoors is also not as common as I would have thought. That’s…