State of Wilderness

Category: Camping

  • Bastrop State Park: Hike It Baby: Thoughts on Hiking

                                Last weekend, we went camping with the Hike It Baby group at Bastrop State Park.  The focused activity of the day was a planned mid-morning hike along the Red Trail (with a later connection to the Purple and Orange Trails, I…

  • Caprock Canyons State Park: Free Verse Style

    Rising from a dream, Noticing a sky full of stars, I look over and Jason met my eye We go outside to look, my oldest son following silently We all marveled at the detail Of the galaxy above us And go back to sleep in awe   Morning’s first light, We sneak away for a daybreak…

  • South Shore Park, Bastrop

    It was twilight, and my little son and I stood at the water’s edge.  He was so excited to get to the swimming area of the park, but excitement turned to trepidation when he realized this was a lake, and not a pool.  It had inhabitants.  He could hear the occasional splash as a fish…

  • 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…