Houston and Moonwalking
From Austin, we zipped down to Houston to see the NASA Space Center. Our first visit was to Mission Control, which brought back so many memories from my childhood and…
To Austin to see our witty friends, the livestock show, and the RODEO
On the way to Austin there are “loose livestock”, so many oil wells (or iron horses, as they are called) and the vestiges of the German Immigrant Trail. At some…
Retrospective on Retro Marfa
(By Steve and Dinah) Today, we left the company town of Marfa after three days of immersion in the minimalist world of Donald Judd. Company town!? Because Donald Judd single…
It’s a star party!
On our second evening in Marfa, we headed up to McDonald observatory, about 45 minutes out of town. McDonald Observatory is operated by University of Texas and offers regular public…
A plant for booze lovers
I was excited to run across this Dasylirion near the Carlsbad Caverns. Dasylirion is also known as Sotol, which is the basis for a rustic distilled spirit of that name,…
Texas, meet California
We woke up at our inn in Trinidad and shared breakfast with a Texas couple on their 30th anniversary visiting the redwoods to see the big trees (“we don’t have…