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Travelogues: Montana, GCNKHO – Custer’s Back Roads
Back to the story of past travels: Last year in June (’10), we were making our “maiden voyage” together, driving 5000 miles across America. I have told the story in past entries of making our way across Texas, spending the night in Palo Duro State Park, checking out the Cadillac Ranch, driving through New Mexico…
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Taking In Lake Texana
This past weekend, we went camping at Lake Texana State Park and had a great time. This park is about two hours southwest of Houston, off of Hwy 59 in Granado. We wouldn’t normally go camping back to back weekends, but this trip was a special one. We had committed ourselves to helping with the…
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Huntsville State Park
We celebrated New Years Eve weekend at Huntsville State Park, located in (you might guess) Huntsville, Texas, which is about an hour drive north of Houston. This park joined the state park system in 1938, yet much work remained in the park at that time. Most of that work centered around the building and then…
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PAUL BARCLAY STASH: GC67
Last summer on our road trip vacation, we had some specific high-value targets in mind: “grandfather caches”, which is a term cachers use for oldest active caches. Specifically, ones hidden in the first year of geocaching, 2000. The first morning we were in Colorado, we were in pursuit of one of these: Paul Barclay, the…