Those who have followed our travel trailer rambles over the past few years know that a persistent “check engine” error code has been a recurring theme. It’s been undiagnosable, but generally indicates a possible overheating situation. It used to freak us out, but after several expensive, failed attempts to address it, we started ignoring it …
We’re in New Orleans for the next few days, but here’s a new video offering a brief look at our favorite things to see and do from our recent time in these two Texas cities.
Moist, savory, smoked brisket that falls to pieces in your mouth. Tangy, smokey, homemade jalapeño sausage. Tender new potatoes swimming in a cup of warm butter. A grilled chicken sandwich served on two halves of a garlicky, deep fried donut. Handmade lemon cream popsicles dipped in white chocolate and dusted with toasted coconut. And we’ve …
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As we get ready to leave San Antonio (which has been a ton of fun) for Austin tomorrow, here’s a video with some highlights of our time in Big Bend, featuring three short hikes in different parts of the park.
We are out of the Big Bend dead-spot and finally able to use the internet without waving our iPhones over our heads trying to catch a faint, passing breeze of cellular service and hoping we don’t get whacked with roaming charges from a cell tower in Mexico. That means three things: We are catching up …
We’ve spent the better part (in more ways than one) of a week in Texas, and we like what we’ve seen so far. Davis Mountains State Park and the area around it—including the towns of Fort Davis, Alpine, and Marfa—provided a warm introduction to “Far West” Texas. We saw a historic fort named for the …
…that’s what time we’re rolling out of Davis Mountains State Park in hopes of scoring a first-come, first-served campsite at Big Bend. (We met another R-Pod owning couple here who told us the competition for sites is cutthroat.) Oh, and the WiFi here is a lie. It may be a while before we’re connected again, …
See that gorgeous campsite in the photo above? The big one with a perfect view of the lake, full hookups, a long and level trailer pad, no immediate neighbors, and shade trees for privacy? Yeah, that’s our site. We reserved it months ago, after scouring online campsite reviews, Google Earth, and multiple RV apps to …