¡ Viva Fiesta ! The rallying cry of San Antonio’s Fiesta Festival tells you all you need to know about this 134-year-old tradition …. Viva = Long Live, Fiesta = Party! Long live the party life, throughout the city, for 11 days of events. With over 100 happenings (including...
Our Summer 2025 road trip is off to a “rocky” start, but in a good way! Our first two stops were at a rock-filled New Mexico state park, and a Texas sand dune. Deming, NM – Rockhound State Park Look! It’s a hound at Rockhound! The campground is set at the base of...
As always, heading home in an RV, from a long distance away, is a mixed bag of excitement and dread. Long days of driving, mixed with a lack of upcoming adventures. Teeth-shattering bad roads (don’t get me started on I-20 through Louisiana) mixed with coma-inducing...
We’re heading to Florida. Finally! We’ve been RV’ing for 10 years, and up to now, still haven’t make it to the big, sunny thumb of the nation. But first, we gotta get there! We left gorgeous, 70-degree Arizona, and the first day … this. Yup, that’s snow...
Elsie’s time in the cool mountains of North Georgia came to an abrupt but expected end. We’re taking a slow roll home, but there’s one more destination that’s been on our travel bucket list for years: Caddo Lake, Texas. This is a gorgeous lake/bayou...
Our extended stay in Fredericksburg was a lesson in making lemonade out of Covid-19 lemons. When we weren’t sheltering in place, and with this charming town completely shut down, we nevertheless scratched our wanderlust itch with brief sightseeing outings, photo safaris, and...
Lucky Charm’s next two Texas State Parks came complete with their very own official mascots: Bison at Caprock Canyons, and Longhorn Bulls at Palo Duro Canyon. The bison are the remnants of the Great Southern Plains Bison, of which there were more than 8 million at one time...
Leaving the beach, we headed back to the trees, specifically the Sam Houston National Forest. Alligators notwithstanding, Huntsville State Park is a lovely place, and no, we did not see any actual alligators. (Word has it that they are very small anyway.) Huntsville SP has tree...
Corpus Christi, Texas, sits on the coast in the Gulf of Mexico, just waiting for wide-eyed desert rats like us to show up and fill our shriveled lungs with that moist sea air. It’s also the home of deceased singer-songwriter-fashion-designer-and-more Selena, one of the most...
The Lucky Charm’s route onward from Big Bend was “bordering” the U.S./Mexico line, inspiring today’s blog theme as we looped our way down to the south, heading to the Padre Island seashore. It is an interesting time to be in this part of the world, with the...