Our son turned us on to this massive, ever-changing paint park at 11th and Baylor near downtown Austin, Texas called the Hope Outdoor Gallery (website). Their website says this started in March 2011. There’s...
The Austin fireworks downtown launched from Auditorium Shores off Lady Bird Lake started early, around 10pm, perhaps because the front was coming in and it was getting below freezing quickly…and it was snowing and/or...
We saw the International Space Stations (ISS) as we drove from Houston to Austin Monday evening (10/16/17) at about 7:50pm looking at the NW horizon. At first we saw lots of planes and stars...
About a 45 minute drive from where we are in Tomball north toward Montgomery is the Saint Francis Wolf Sanctuary. We did not know about it at all until this past Saturday when they...
McKinney Falls State Park is about 6 miles from downtown Austin and 3 miles from my son’s apartment. We hiked there on a sunny September Sunday. (For links to our other State Park hikes,...
Huntsville State Park is a little over an hour north of Houston, just west of I-45 and a bit south of the city of Huntsville. It was a blue-sky day, semi-low humidity so we...
Brazos Bend State Park is an hour drive south of us, and since we are northwest of Houston, it is a lot closer to most Houstonians. We had not been since the kids were...
Quebec City, the app/enhanced eBook I wrote and developed for my gorgeous wife’s birthday (as that’s where we went to explore and celebrate) is now available in the Apple App Store for free…at least...
It’s been a little more than a week since my friends and I came out of the Grand Canyon. But I still wake up at night looking for the stars. Many of us wake...
As a lover of books and technology, I’ve spent a lot of time the past few years investigating how to combine them. The proliferation of tablet computing, and the need/availability for interaction, have pushed...
