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Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park Campground Review (and Dallas, briefly)

June 1, 2018 by kokotg 2 Comments

Travel dates: July 21-24, 2017 It’s here! It’s here! It’s the very last post about our summer 2017 cross country road trip! Except I’m going to do an indexing kind of post so people can find everything easily now that they’re all written. Because there are a lot of posts. Dallas is getting short shrift […]

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Filed Under: 2017 Cross Country Trip, Alabama, Campground Reviews, Texas

All the Way with LBJ! Lyndon B. Johnson Sites in and around Austin, TX

May 30, 2018 by kokotg Leave a Comment

Travel dates: July 18-19, 2017 Presidential libraries and four year olds are not the best combination. Truth be told. But we have a firm rule about never passing up a good presidential history site (is there such a thing as a bad presidential history site, really? There are bad presidents, but they still make for good history), […]

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Filed Under: 2017 Cross Country Trip, national parks, Texas

La Hacienda RV Resort Review and Hanging out in Austin with Friends

May 24, 2018 by kokotg Leave a Comment

Travel dates: July 17-21, 2017 Austin was our last long stop on our 2017 road trip. From there on, we had a series of overnight stops and then home. So it was lovely to be able to pause here for a few days, see a great city, and hang out with friends. Our friends, Kristi […]

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Fort Davis and Davis Mountains State Park (but not a Star Party)

May 18, 2018 by kokotg Leave a Comment

Travel dates: July 15-16, 2017 When the McDonald Observatory in Fort Davis, TX popped up one month in our See America calendar (affiliate link), we thought it looked so cool that we rearranged an entire leg of our summer trip to make time to go see it and attend one of its Star Parties with telescope […]

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A Day at Carlsbad Caverns with Kids: a Cave, Baby Raccoons, and a Whole Lot of Bats

May 16, 2018 by kokotg 4 Comments

Travel date: July 14, 2017 Carlsbad Caverns National Park has the prettiest caves we’ve ever been in. There; I said it. No offense to Mammoth Cave or Wind Cave or the lava tubes at Lava Beds National Monument–each of which has much to recommend it–but nothing comes close to Carlsbad Caverns for sheer beauty and […]

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Filed Under: 2017 Cross Country Trip, national parks, New Mexico

Brantley Lake State Park: A Campground Review and a Very Flat Tire

May 13, 2018 by kokotg Leave a Comment

Travel dates: July 13-15, 2017 To get to the campground at Brantley Lake State Park, you have to drive about six miles off the main highway, down narrow, little traveled roads surrounded on all sides by rabbits of both the living and dead varieties. I don’t know how many of those miles we drove with […]

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Filed Under: 2017 Cross Country Trip, Campground Reviews, New Mexico

Passing through Petrified Forest National Park and a Stay at the Grants/Cibola Sands KOA

May 8, 2018 by kokotg Leave a Comment

Travel date: July 13, 2017 Generally speaking, I wouldn’t suggest a drive-through visit to any National Park if it can be avoided. But if any park lends itself to this kind of visit, it’s Petrified Forest–you can see a whole lot of the park if you spend a few hours driving through and stopping along […]

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Filed Under: 2017 Cross Country Trip, Arizona, Campground Reviews, national parks, New Mexico

Making the Most of One Day at the Grand Canyon

May 4, 2018 by kokotg 2 Comments

Travel date: July 11, 2017 Here is the sun setting over the Grand Canyon, as seen from the Desert View area. And here’s Gus, a few minutes later, mocking one of the many, many others we shared that view with: a woman in a bright yellow jacket who posed enthusiastically and ridiculously on the rim […]

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Grand Canyon Railway RV Park: Campground Review

May 2, 2018 by kokotg 2 Comments

travel dates: July 10-12, 2017 To understand how we came to stay at the Grand Canyon Railway RV Park, you have to go all the way back to the beginning of our trip, to our day at the St. Louis Zoo. There I was, hanging out with penguins and whatnot at the zoo, when checked […]

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Alcatraz with Kids: Prison Cells, Gardens, and Baby Birds

April 28, 2018 by kokotg Leave a Comment

Travel date: July 7, 2017 Alcatraz is a fascinating blank slate of an island. People have been writing stories on it for hundreds of years, and wandering the island, reading through the layers of what’s been left behind, is an amazing experience. Fort, prison, site of an 18 month occupation by Native Americans….it’s all still […]

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Filed Under: 2017 Cross Country Trip, california, national parks

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