Category: Hike It Baby

  • Revival

    Revival

    This past year, my husband has been warning me that I was becoming one-dimensional. I pride myself on being somewhat of a complex person, and in fact that is one of the things he loves about me. Our conversations are usually so riveting, but it seemed like this past year I talked about little besides…

  • Sand Creek Farm

    Sand Creek Farm

    Over the weekend, we visited Sand Creek Farm with the Hike It Baby Houston group.  This was a fun day trip (that was supposed to be a camping trip, but more on that later) that taught us some things and gave us some neat experiences that I wanted to share with you. Sand Creek Farm…

  • 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…

  • Big Creek Scenic Area

    There’s a quiet place along an old dirt road, not far from the cities of Conroe or Cleveland, where a small parking lot off Forest Road 217 provides access to a great big forest.  In this forest, there is a trail that runs for 140 miles, making it the longest continuous hiking trail in Texas (see…