Category: Texas State Parks

  • All The Things We Didn’t Do

    It was one of those moments that is so typical of us, and yet so frustrating.  He was on his tiptoes, and I was leaning over from a picnic bench, trying to make sure I didn’t fall down.  We were peering into the windows of an empty cabin.  A curtain fluttered from the breeze of…

  • Brazos Bend, Again

    Sunday afternoon was drizzly and a bit cold, but here we were, in the truck headed south to Brazos Bend State Park anyway.  We were on a mission to retrieve J’s lost binoculars lens cover, and he agreed to indulge my desire to get a few caches and look for a few birds. We settled…

  • Brazos Bend Part II: It’s For the Birds

    After staying up until midnight talking, drinking, and eating with our friends on New Year’s Eve, we headed off to our tent.  Despite the predictions of cold temperatures, it actually was not a bad night in our sleeping bags, and we felt quite rested in the morning.  I flipped us some oatmeal-banana-chocolate chip pancakes that…

  • Brazos Bend State Park: Tales of the Wilderness

    It is our annual tradition to spend New Year’s Eve on a camping trip with a certain core group of geocachers, give or take a few.  For me, this is only the third year I have been involved in this tradition, but for J, this goes back about ten years.  (It would be the fourth…