More Good Eatin’
Posted by Daria
We were in Texas nearly three weeks, visiting family, driving around the Hill Country, lazing on the beach at Mustang Island, hiking at Big Bend. But the main thing we did, other than drive (in Texas, everything is far away), was eat, and the main thing we ate was barbecue.
Stan has an assignment [...]
Close Encounters
Posted by Daria
Big Bend National Park is truly spectacular, with an amazing variety of rocks from all different geological periods in one place and more species of wildlife than any other national park. We’re spoiled—living in the Southwest, we get to see these kinds of mountains and mesas all the time—but we were still very [...]
Potty Talk
Posted by Daria
A question we never thought we’d have to ask is “Are your bathrooms heated?” Silly novices, it didn’t occur to us that bathrooms would ever not be heated. It’s winter, after all, in temperature if not by calendar.
Yet, there’s Stan at a park in Williamsburg, Virginia, checking us in, when Sierra (who always [...]
A Day in the Life of Sierra
8:00 AM – Mom and/or Dad shout at Sierra to get up. Sierra scrunches into a ball and rolls over into a corner. She falls back asleep and dreams that she got up.
8:15 AM – Sierra is either bribed or threatened to get up. She does so with reluctance.
8:20 AM – Sierra heads to the [...]