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It’s only been a week since we left Bandera, and already I’m on sensory overload. It’s like that old movie, “If It’s Tuesday This Must Be Belgium,” where a busload of Americans go on an 18-day tour of nine European … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2018
We are less than one week away from leaving a place we’ve been living for nearly two months, and I’m feeling rather sentimental. I’ve been trying to remember what led us to choosing Bandera, Texas as a place to spend … Continue reading
Recently a story trended across the media about a couple from Breckenridge, Colorado who’d sold everything in order to buy a boat to sail the world, only to have it hit a sandbar, capsize, and sink in the Gulf of … Continue reading
Cowboy Mardi Gras was celebrated in Bandera last week: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. It had been promoted all over town since the beginning of the year, and spirits were high as the town braced for one of its biggest weekends … Continue reading
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. -Maya Angelou A friend back home recently commented that it looked as though I … Continue reading
“One’s destination is never a place, but always a new way of seeing things.” -Henry Miller We’ve been in Bandera, Texas four full weeks now. The weather’s cooperated with my wanting to be outdoors as much as possible, so the … Continue reading
I didn’t think I’d be writing again so soon, but yesterday was too good not to write about. The visitor center of any town we’re at for awhile is usually our first stop, and so it was when we got … Continue reading
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.” -Cyril Connolly I was really good for awhile about updating this blog regularly, at least monthly…but then life happened midway through … Continue reading