Author: Mike Pekrul

It was raining and freezing all morning, and I finally got stir crazy enough to just go make the best of it. Walked out the door and almost fell down the stairs. They were covered in a slick coat of ice. So was the truck. Drove to Pedernales Falls State Park nearby. AWESOME place, if…

Sometimes it looks like the right move. On paper it looks good and online it looks good, but then reality hits and you wish you had done it differently. And no, I don’t mean retirement or this trip, those are still fantastic. 🤩 Blanco State Park in Blanco TX. Meh. Not impressed. Not going on…

OMG it’s cold out there. Again. Temperature has dropped almost 40 degrees since yesterday. Low of 22 this morning and supposed to be colder tonight. We (mostly) finished up the front propane tank yesterday, and I switched to the full back tank before bed, so we didn’t run out overnight. Used almost 25% of a…

More fun trail riding on the bikes this morning, listening to Susy cackle all the way around. Twice. 🤣 This afternoon, we drove out to The Oasis on Lake Travis. I remember coming here back in the 80’s when it was a hole in the wall place out past the middle of nowhere, overlooking Hippie…

A busy day! Another waterfall today, earlier in the day so we didn’t have to dodge as many people. Also, very strange, seems like every single place we’ve been on this trip, we come across a three-legged dog. What’s with that? Went to the top of Mt Bonnell, overlooking the Colorado River (the Texas one,…

So that’s what I get for bragging about how good the roads in Texas are. We got to our campsite, opened up the camper, and a large portion of our dishes were smashed on the floor. Somewhere in the last hour of our drive, the dish cupboard popped open and all of our fine china…

Finally we get another beautiful day in Galveston and we have to leave. 🙁. Warm, sunny, light breeze… not the howling gale we’ve had to endure for the last couple days. Like the old saying, “if you don’t like the weather, wait ten minutes”, Texas is like that in her varied areas. If you don’t…

Yesterday was a repair and maintenance day. Got the bike rack repaired, had some work done on the truck, worked on the bikes and camper. Life just gets in the way of fun sometimes but has to be done, like it or not. We did get to drive WAY out on the Texas City dike…

Been here three days so far and enjoying it. Galveston reminds me of the strip at Daytona, or Panama City Beach. Lots of “touristy” stuff right along Seawall Blvd… condos, restaurants, beach shops, fishing piers, and of course, the beach. Look in the background and you might see my camper. 😁 I went exploring on…

We left Sam Houston Jones State Park in Lake Charles Louisiana this morning and made it to Galveston. I can definitively say now that the Texas DOT could kick the crap out of the Louisiana DOT in any sort of competition. Crossed the border into Tejas and life (the road) is good again. Made it…