State of Wilderness

Category: Travels

  • Bentsen – Rio Grande Valley State Park: Dude, Chill

    Bentsen – Rio Grande Valley State Park: Dude, Chill

    It’s a crisp Saturday morning in the Rio Grande Valley.  The air has that just-after-a-rain feeling, when the clouds had finally burst and released the humidity and all the plants look freshly washed.  A cool, refreshing breeze is blowing over us, assisted by the forward momentum of the electric tram. We are in Bentsen-Rio Grande…

  • Texas Geocaching Challenge: Brenham

    Texas Geocaching Challenge: Brenham

    They say all you need to geocache is a sense of adventure and a GPS. These days, with the advent of the smartphone, you really don’t even need that GPSr. I think that sometimes we geocachers get so caught up in the game, in the numbers, in the bragging rights and competition, that we forget…

  • Weekend At Foxfire Cabins: Garner and Lost Maples State Parks

    Weekend At Foxfire Cabins: Garner and Lost Maples State Parks

    It’s early morning, and already baby is experimenting with natural elements.  He is checking out the properties of rock, wood and leaves.  Each new treasure he finds is tested for weight and depth, and sometimes, if he can manage it before mama catches him, taste and edibility.  The morning light is fine and crisp, and…

  • All the Roads

    It started with a dinner, Valentine’s Day, over five years ago now.  That was our first meal together, as friends, “not a date”, we both insisted, as my divorce wasn’t quite final. We sat across from each other at Johnny Carino’s way out on the east side of Houston, after hanging out watching a dog agility…