We just got back from an amazing eight day family vacation in Mississippi. We love love love this tradition – you can read all about it HERE. So be prepared for lots of journaling about our trip! Let me just start out by saying this may have won the award for must frustrating trip to …
This day began our travel back home. We left the ranch house in Alpine around 8:00 and headed up to Fort Davis National Historical Site. This was a frontier military post from the Indians War era. We have been to several military forts before and this one was different and neat to see. We walked …
Big Bend National Park is incredible! I will say, I don’t think I have ever been anywhere so isolated. Big Bend is MASSIVE and so far removed from everything, which I must admit, might be part of it’s charm. We pulled into Big Bend in the late afternoon after driving over from San Antonio and …
We hit the road again and left the great city of San Antonio and headed to Amistad National Recreation Area. Fun fact: Amistad Reservoir is shared between Mexico AND the United States. We didn’t see much of it but what we did see was beautiful. It has these high cliffs along the edges which give …
Our final stop of the day was to the San Antonio Texas Temple. We are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and love temples. But you do not need to be a member of the Church to enjoy the wonderful spirit of the temple grounds. And if you want a place …
After our picnic lunch at Natural Bridge Caverns, we headed over to the Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch {which is right next door!}. We have done a couple different car/zoo experiences before but this was unlike any other! They give you a bag of food and you are ALLOWED and ENCOURAGED to roll down your windows …
This day was ALL about the kiddos – but everyone had loads of fun! It was misty and drizzling this morning as we loaded up in the car to begin our adventures. We shuffled our plans around a bit and decided to start our day with the cave. We went to Natural Bridge Caverns and …
The kiddos did so well today after exploring the San Antonio Missions and the Alamo that we felt like we deserved a little treat! We headed over to the Riverwalk and walked around and then got some ice cream – because even though we were pretty chilly, ice cream is well…ice cream! We drove around …
After we explored the San Antonio Missions we headed into downtown San Antonio to see THE ALAMO. It was really interesting ENDING on this one because we had all of the previous ones to compare it to. It is definitely small, but, of course, the reason to go here is for the history, especially that …