Viewing the International Space Station
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...
Category: Travel
Saint Francis Wolf Sanctuary
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
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,...
Hiking in Huntsville State Park
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
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 app/enhanced eBook now available for free in the Apple App Store
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...
Stars and Sleeping by the Colorado River
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...
Grand Canyon app in Apple App Store
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...
Grand Canyon – Lava Falls, the Grand Finale
Previous Post: Grand Canyon – the “Death March” hike April 14 This was the big day that most of the boys had been waiting for, and had gotten waterproof video cameras for: Lava Falls....