Trip report: miles and miles of Texas!
We just returned from a 9-night, 1,800 mile trip. We homeschool, so we were able to plan our trip after Labor Day to avoid the capacity crowds at some of the popular destinations we wanted to see. A...
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TomHaycraft wrote:
Texas is an incredible (and incredibly large) place. One year with our trailer, camped every month since purchasing it in August 2012 (some months twice!) and there are 1 to 2 year's worth of parks we haven't visited, and that is almost exclusively State Parks. I haven't even begun to research all the COE parks.
It was telling that we were that far from home. . . then drove even farther on the day trip, and in Alpine we saw the sign that said we were only 130 more miles from the ENTRANCE to Big Bend! lol
We'll wait for the kids to be a little older to summit Guadalupe Peak and enter Big Bend. . . and from every indication from the very beginnings of my research, Big Bend is the type of trip that you really need to spend some serious time planning before you go.
We should be primed for that elusive beach vacation in the spring. . . either Matagora Bay (a county park there) or Mustang Island SP. I hope to do a few weekends and maybe another week here or there around North and East Texas through the Fall and Winter.
I forgot to give kudos to the state reservation line. They made switching our Mustang Island SP reservations to Balmorhea SP and our Mother Neff SP reservation to Abilene SP extremely easy. About five minutes on the phone and a very meager $2 processing fee.
