Boyinks4Adventure

I awoke Monday morning to an orchestra of beautiful bird song. I would have stayed in bed and listened for another hour, but Mike and I had agreed that we needed to leave South Llano River State Park fairly early for the day’s drive. We headed west on I-10. What a long, rather desolate road. Not many towns along the way; even fewer gas stations right off of the highway.…   Read More >>

The route headed west out of San Antonio is a bit difficult to plan out.  It contains a lot of vast open stretches with distances between waypoints further than the 3-4 hours max we prefer to go on a given day.  We chose the Junction area as a easy first-day drive only being a couple of hours away.  The South Llano River State Park looked interesting so we headed there. …   Read More >>

We left the Rio Grande Valley and headed north to the San Antonio area. Tim and Stephanie Sheaffer of Give Every Day were camping in Canyon Lake, TX, and we wanted to meet up with them before continuing west. Upon the recommendation of the Ticknor family, we stayed two nights at Potter’s Creek Park (a US Army Corp of Engineers park). Mike enjoyed watching the deer graze while eating his…   Read More >>

When we first started planning this trip last year we quickly came across the Families on the Road (or FOTR) website.  FOTR.com links to the blogs that families maintain while on the road, and I used Google Reader to subscribe to all the active ones so that we could easily keep up with them.  My hope was that we’d both learn tips about living on the road as a family…   Read More >>

A week with grandparents! That’s really what this portion of our trip was all about.  They are RV’rs, but some medical issues are keeping them from traveling for a while so since we are mobile we came to them.  Dad lined us up with a nice RV pad at a neighbors two doors over - close and free! When we arrived Dad was set to give the trailer a wash…   Read More >>

My folks have been campers & RV’rs for as long as they’ve been married. They have stories of traveling with my Grandparents in a 50’s era station wagon outfitted with a custom chuckbox in the rear and with the whole gang sleeping in canvas tents that had to be setup and taken down with each move. From there it was a clamshell car-top camper (along these lines but, I suspect,…   Read More >>

After deciding to save a New Orleans visit for a future trip we got an early start out of Bay St. Louis, MS and our day of travel took us through the remaining portion of MS Gulf Coast, across Louisiana (where we only stopped for a late lunch) and into Texas.  We crossed the Mississippi River on this travel day.  When you think about how often we divide our country…   Read More >>