State of Wilderness

Author: keely

  • Columbus, TX: Texas History and Paddling Trail

    This is the view looking out of the entrance to a Texas Parks and Wildlife Canoe Launch area in Columbus, Texas. During the struggle for Texas Independence, it is said that the army of Santa Anna camped on one side of the Colorado River here, while Sam Houston’s army camped on the other.  They crossed…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…