Friday, April 6 (my seven-month birthday), was a great day to relax and get to know our accommodations. The George rises to three stories. Two wings, running west and north, stretch over the first level. Our room sits up two flights of stairs and down an uneven hall past nonstandard doorways of varying heights. Floors …
Up and at ’em. After helping myself a bowl of muesli and cow milk, Jonathan prepared a fulfilling breakfast of eggs, bacon, and toast. I wrote some, then Linda and I took a walk in the sunny, cool morning along the bike path and through a sheep field to the ancient church, St. George’s. There …
Our escape vehicle, a brand-new Boeing 787 Dreamliner, jetted out of Austin on a partly cloudy late afternoon, zooming north and east. Remarkable were the individual touch screens on all seat backs, which offered games, menus, flight path maps, and views out left and right windows as well as the cockpit. Passengers could read our …
Waiting to board…
Time’s growing short, but we’re getting ourselves and our stuff ready. Consider this a test of how this post might propagate.
Thanks for joining me! Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton
There’s a desire that builds in me after too long a time away from Trans-Pecos Texas. The final winter weekend of 2016 presented an opportunity to scratch that itch when I learned that the Nature Conservancy’s Davis Mountains Preserve would be open. Lina and I chose to combine this year’s wedding anniversary trip with a …
Here’s a guest post: Austin holds a reputation for being a strange place. What are the most bizarre aspects of this creative city? photo: propertytaxloansfortexas.com Red Wassenich would never have imagined what he started probably as a novelty and a mild shocker would turn into a monster. Neither could he have foretold that the city …
Youth camps have graced the Kerrville area of the Texas Hill Country since the 1920s, but Presbyterians were the first denomination to start a summer church camp there. Methodists, Lutherans, and Catholics soon followed suite. Currently, one can visit nearby Mount Wesley, Camp Chrysalis, and TECABOCA. Mo Ranch is a 500-acre conference and camp center …
June 8, 1974, from the HWR Travel Log: On that Saturday, I was exploring southwest of Austin. I remembered that my high school algebra teacher, Turner Ferguson, taught riflery at a camp called Friday Mountain Ranch during the summers, so I drove into that gate to look for him. This was only three years since …