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Just what is a Staycation?
“I'm bored; let's go for a ride....”
It usually begins with something as simple as this. We gas up the car, toss our cameras on the floor in front of our seats, put the dog in her car seat between us and off we go.
Like lots of couples these days, we're running on the tightest of budgets. We can't afford to just jump on a jet on impulse and go to Hawaii or Las Vegas, but we always seem to have a little cash to explore places within a gas tank of home, and thankfully, there are plenty of places in Texas just waiting to be discovered and explored.
Texas is full of small towns we've never been to. Some of the greatest meals, the best cups of coffee, and the best finds in small nondescript thrift shops were all made in tiny towns that we can't even remember the names of.
There is a feeling I get when we drive down a remote two-lane highway carved between two rocky cliffs or explore the remains of a shut-down drive-in theater that finding words to express is difficult at best. It's the same feeling I get when we roll into a small town where all the buildings are boarded-up and plastered with faded FOR LEASE signs, or when we drive across a rickety wooden bridge., or when we walk into a crumbling building with no roof and only two remaining walls, or when we walk through the gate of a long forgotten cemetery where the tombstones are so old and faded that its nearly impossible to read the dates or names.
People worked here, people played here. They laughed and cried here. And yet those emotions have faded like hand-painted banners at an abandoned high school and have been replaced with weeds and trees growing untrimmed and wild.
Some towns on the other hand, blossom and bloom into much larger communities over-night. People move there to take advantage of less expensive real estate, to get away from the hustle and bustle of larger cities. Sometimes those towns lose their charm; other times it grows tenfold, it can go either way.
We hope to share our excitement with you, the wonder, the awe, the majesty of exploring new places and places that might look strangely familiar for reasons that aren't apparent at first.
Texas is a magical place where people from all over the world have moved over the course of the last two centuries. The architecture, the music, the clothing, the food and drinks have been influenced by the people who moved here from the four corners of this Earth to eke out a living and brought their personal inherited tastes with them. Combined they make a colorful palette from which Texas as a whole is painted.
“I'm bored; let's go for a ride....”
It usually begins with something as simple as this. We gas up the car, toss our cameras on the floor in front of our seats, put the dog in her car seat between us and off we go.
Like lots of couples these days, we're running on the tightest of budgets. We can't afford to just jump on a jet on impulse and go to Hawaii or Las Vegas, but we always seem to have a little cash to explore places within a gas tank of home, and thankfully, there are plenty of places in Texas just waiting to be discovered and explored.
Texas is full of small towns we've never been to. Some of the greatest meals, the best cups of coffee, and the best finds in small nondescript thrift shops were all made in tiny towns that we can't even remember the names of.
There is a feeling I get when we drive down a remote two-lane highway carved between two rocky cliffs or explore the remains of a shut-down drive-in theater that finding words to express is difficult at best. It's the same feeling I get when we roll into a small town where all the buildings are boarded-up and plastered with faded FOR LEASE signs, or when we drive across a rickety wooden bridge., or when we walk into a crumbling building with no roof and only two remaining walls, or when we walk through the gate of a long forgotten cemetery where the tombstones are so old and faded that its nearly impossible to read the dates or names.
People worked here, people played here. They laughed and cried here. And yet those emotions have faded like hand-painted banners at an abandoned high school and have been replaced with weeds and trees growing untrimmed and wild.
Some towns on the other hand, blossom and bloom into much larger communities over-night. People move there to take advantage of less expensive real estate, to get away from the hustle and bustle of larger cities. Sometimes those towns lose their charm; other times it grows tenfold, it can go either way.
We hope to share our excitement with you, the wonder, the awe, the majesty of exploring new places and places that might look strangely familiar for reasons that aren't apparent at first.
Texas is a magical place where people from all over the world have moved over the course of the last two centuries. The architecture, the music, the clothing, the food and drinks have been influenced by the people who moved here from the four corners of this Earth to eke out a living and brought their personal inherited tastes with them. Combined they make a colorful palette from which Texas as a whole is painted.
