State of Wilderness

Category: Travels

  • TEXAS HILL COUNTRY HEAVEN Part 2

    After a brief rest and lunch at our little cabin at FoxFire Cabins, we decided to make a drive around the area.  This decision was spurred by his need for painkillers for a backache, none of which we had.  I had read in the cabin’s journal (I LOVE how cabins like this leave a journal…

  • TEXAS HILL COUNTRY HEAVEN part 1

    Now time for a more recent adventure… We had one weekend left until the children came back from vacation with their father, and we had opted to sneak out of town for one last romantic adventure until we were a family of four, and not just the two of us.  The weekend was wide open…

  • Travelogues: Amarillo By Evening

    In planning the great western road trip starting in Houston, there are a few choices on how to reach the scenic vistas of the west.  One way out is to head through Amarillo.  We weren’t on a quest to see cities, though, we were on a quest to experience state and national parks, and to…

  • Travelogues: Silver Gate, MT

    (Note:  originally I meant to write about our road trip adventures in blog form back in last summer, right after we got home from them.  About six months later, J finally got around to creating this website for me, and now almost a year later, I am finally getting around to writing about them, so…