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Cadillac Ranch: A Stormy Night in Amarillo

December 7, 2022 by kokotg Leave a Comment

kids in front of a Cadillac at Cadillac Ranch

When you find yourself with one night in Amarillo, Texas, at a campground right next door to Cadillac Ranch, with a nasty looking storm headed your way, there’s really only one thing to do: make a very quick trip to Cadillac Ranch and take a million pictures with the dramatic lighting, then spend a couple […]

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Filed Under: 2022 Mountains, Campground Reviews, Texas

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

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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