Category: Texas

Exploring Big Bend National Park with Young Kids

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Big Bend National Park is Texas’s only national park. Located in far west Texas, the park is nestled in a curve of the Rio Grande along the Mexican border. Visions of West Texas usually conjure images of barren desert and tumbleweeds, but Big Bend is much more than just desert. Amongst the sweeping desert landscape, there are mountain ranges and patches of green oasis along the Rio Grande. In fact, an entire mountain range – the Chisos Mountains are located at the heart of the park. In a single day, visitors can hike a desert trail, swim in the Rio… Continue reading

Roadtripping Through Texas with Kids! Part 2

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Our BIG TEXAS ROAD TRIP started with a drive to Big Bend, via Sonora and a stop at the Sonora Caverns. Then we spent four days exploring Big Bend National Park, Terlingua, and Big Bend Ranch State Park before heading on to Marfa. Read here about the first part of our Texas Road Trip! Marfa, TX and Alpine, TX Any visit to the Big Bend area will almost certainly bring you through one or more of the west Texas towns in the area. My first visit as a teenager, we stayed a couple nights in Marathon. On this trip we… Continue reading

Roadtripping through Texas with Kids! Part 1

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Along with literally everyone else in the world, 2020 didn’t pan out exactly the way we thought it would. I remember in January talking excitedly with family about a big southeast Asia trip we were planning for November. This was a world when the biggest crisis at the time was the Australian wildfires, and we were concerned about my sister and her brand new husband who were traveling there for their honeymoon. (Thankfully their trip was a success!) Oh to be back in that pre-pandemic world.  Obviously we didn’t visit Vietnam or Thailand. We naively booked a summer trip for… Continue reading