An Enjoyable Escape To Hill Country Casitas As part of an escape from work and a short staycation, we spent four really fun days in Dripping Springs sampling some great craft beer, sipping some wine, overindulging in some excellent food, and listening to some good music. Our home base for the first couple days was…
Keep ReadingLake LBJ is one of the lakes in the Highland Lakes chain of lakes which includes: Lake Austin, Lake Travis, Lake Marble Falls, Inks Lake, and Lake Buchanan. Lake LBJ is 23,060 acres, 30.7 miles long, and 4.9 miles wide at it's widest point. Lake LBJ is a Lower Colorado River Authority impoundment and is…
Keep ReadingSpring Break At Mo Ranch During our planning for a spring break vacation, we started looking for a fun place to stay in the Texas Hill Country and luckily we stumbled across the Mo Ranch website. After looking at all that Mo Ranch had to offer, we booked a couple rooms and headed to Hunt,…
Keep ReadingTexas Horse Camping with Horseback Riding Trails If you're looking for some places to camp with horses that have horseback riding trails then you've come to the right page. Here we will list some campgrounds that allow horses, have corrals for your horses, and have miles of horseback riding trails for you to enjoy during…
Keep ReadingLake Austin Boat Rentals This page has a list of Lake Austin Boat Rentals. You can rent a ski boat, pontoon boat, or party barge on Lake Austin and enjoy all that Lake Austin has to offer for skiing, fishing, touring, on the water dining, or partying in on of the party coves. The larger…
Keep ReadingGruene History Ernst Gruene and his wife Antoinette, German immigrants, were the first to settle in 1845 in what is now known as Gruene. Their original house is now a B&B called Antoinette's Cottage. Being a good German, when Ernest bought his farm he wrote his intentions of opening a beer hall and saloon in…
Keep ReadingA Fun Visit to the Epic Waters' Waterpark in Grand Prairie We were babysitting the grand kids in Dallas and asked them "what would you guys like to do?" One of them quickly answered, "can we go to that new indoor waterpark in Grand Prairie that has gotten some excellent reviews?" Since it was 95…
Keep ReadingFishing on Lake Texoma is excellent for striped bass, small mouth bass, and blue catfish. So, if you're headed to Lake Texoma, then plan on making it a weekend and here are some good Lake Texoma fishing cabins. These fishing cabins are the perfect place to cook all the fish you plan to catch and…
Keep ReadingVaquero Golf Course Sometimes you just get lucky. Everybody knows that I like to play at some of the worst places in Texas and most people would consider that to be a complete waste of time. My philosophy is you can't play them all if you don't play them all. A place to swing the…
Keep ReadingGolfing Our Way To West Texas Our calling (somebody had to do it) was to head West from Dallas for two weeks of fun new adventures golfing, camping, hiking, biking, houseboating, caving, eating, drinking, and in general just having a good ole time. Our destination was the Terlingua Chili Cookoff and Big Bend National Park,…
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