Travel
Our Favorite Travel Gear to Make Travel Easy
Travel, especially with a family, can feel trying. Making sure everything is packed, and everyone has everything, and nothing is forgotten is a massive chore in itself that requires a whole other vacation to recover from. Over the years, and with a lot of travel experience, we’ve found a few essential items that make the…
Read MoreMust Have Camping Gear of 2026
Talk to any avid camper and they’ll have at least one piece of new camping gear that they want to talk to you about. So we went to the source and chatted with the ladies of Houston Women’s Hiking to hear all about their favorite gear. This list includes some of our tried and true…
Read MoreThings to Buy When You Buy A Camper
When you buy a camper, no one really tells you ALLLLL the other things you need to buy to make sure that camper is running properly and to make camper life a lot easier. When we bought and renovated our camper in 2020, half of our budget went to things for the camper, not just…
Read MoreFamily Things To Do In Dallas, A Long Weekend
This past weekend we went on a family trip to and spent a long weekend exploring things to do in Dallas, TX. Bill and I lived there for a short time, very early in our marriage. We decided it wasn’t our favorite place which is when we moved to Houston (where I’m from) and started…
Read More5 Favorite Texas State Parks (That We’ve Visited So Far)
When I share about our family mission to visit every state park in Texas, the next question is always, “how many have you been to and which one is your favorite”. With 10 natural ecoregion across the state it’s insanely hard to narrow it down to one, or even five favorites. Each region is so…
Read MoreStronger Than – Losing A Texas State Park – Misti Little
Misti and I met through Instagram at the very start of the battle to save Fairfield Lake State Park. It was the end of February and I was at the rodeo cookoff when she messaged me to share her oped on the park closing. Over the last nine months she’s been my go to for…
Read MoreProposition 14 – The Centennial Parks Conservation Fund – Passes!
This year I wrote and created a travel journal for Texas State Parks — Texas State Parks Journal. In the process of writing this book I did buckets of research on the history of Texas State Parks. Initially it was going to be a whole chapter in the book, however I found it to be…
Read MoreTexas State Park Journal is Here!
The Texas State Park Journal is finally here!! When I set out to create this book over a year ago I had no idea what paths it would take me down. Originally it was just going to be a fill-out journal style, with no real writing. It quickly became an “If You Give A Mouse…
Read MoreWomen in the Woods | Houston Women’s Hiking
Something magical happens when women are gathered in nature. I often wonder if the ancient years of women congregating around a tribal fire or at the waters edge, washing clothes, have somehow changed us on a genetic level to seek out this kind of communion. Studies have shows that cultural and genetic evolution can work…
Read MoreGalveston Historic Seaport – Ship To Shore – An Immersive Immigration Experience – Living Texas History, Galveston, Texas
Our Living Texas History series is all about highlighting places across Texas where parents and kids alike can learn about Texas history in a hands on way. All 4th and 7th graders in Texas are required to take Texas history. Now that we homeschool we wanted to take a little bit different approach. Learning our…
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