Author: Bernard Chenevert

Houston

While the size of the city is surprising, and its many glistening skyscrapers  evidence of its financial clout on the economy of Texas, there wasn’t a whole lot that we were interesting of visiting inside. We settled on visiting the MFAH, as they call themselves (Museum of Fine Arts – Houston).  This was our first… Continue reading Houston

Houston Traders Village

Most campgrounds in Houston had exorbitant ($100+) nighty rates.  We found one at reasonable rates, which is on the same property as “Traders Village”, which is a bit of a flea market.  The statistics are staggering.  The merchant area is described as 100+ acres.  They state that on a typical day, there are 1000+ merchants. … Continue reading Houston Traders Village

Staying put today – freezing rain in central Texas

Good thing we moved on from San Antonio yesterday.  As forecasted, in rained all night, and then in the early morning hours, temperatures started dropping.  It was 31 at 7AM and is now 28 at noon.  We have had a mixture, of rain, sleet and freezing rain.  Right now, the coat of freezing rain continues… Continue reading Staying put today – freezing rain in central Texas

San Antonio, TX

We got to our campground in San Antonio early enough that after lunch, we were able to do our first Starbucks run in weeks, then refilled our diesel tank, and still have time to go explore downtown San Antonio, walk by the alamo, and walk down and explore a small section of Riverwalk, which is… Continue reading San Antonio, TX

Seminole Canyon State Park

Claudette likes petroglyphs, and she got them!  We joined a guided tour of the petroglyphs in Seminole Canyon where the park is located (public access is blocked due to prior incidents of damage to the petroglyphs done by visitors) These are fairly large and multi-colored, so there is no doubt that these were made by… Continue reading Seminole Canyon State Park

Leaving Big Bend

This is the first day during our trip where we are backtracking on a road we have traveled in the other direction.  The trip out of the park, and north towards Marathon, TX is our way back out of the park.  We enjoy the desert scenery one last time.  That said, once we take US-90… Continue reading Leaving Big Bend

One month on the road today

One month on the road today.  We left our home in Virginia on December 28, back when we were still in the holiday period! Since we left, we have stayed at 15 different campgrounds, so we have moved quite a bit.  In fact, we have driven 3300 miles since we left.