State of Wilderness

Category: Travels

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • HILL COUNTRY HEAVEN Part 3

    After the high terrain hike we took in Garner State Park, the dogs and Jason were all wore out.  I wanted to go find one of the great swimming holes of the Frio River, but the river was just about dry this year due to the drought and they were just too tired.  We headed…