Our time in the Dallas area was all about people. We enjoyed three days of meeting up with old friends. Everyone agreed this was a major highlight of our trip. The centerpiece of our visit was our time at Trinity Bible Church, our home congregation for our six years in Dallas. Kelli and I loved… Read More »
Be careful what you say. Someone once told me they liked my vacation posts on this blog. I remember that. Thus you get what follows. When we lived in Texas, we did four major three-week summer vacations (we missed the first summer because Kelli broke her ankle). The first was to the west, but the… Read More »
On the last of our five-day Tour of Texas for Thanksgiving Twenty Twelve, we drove east of Austin to visit with some friends on furlough. Emily was an IBEX student many years ago and she and Brant have served in Papua New Guinea for four years. As I write this (Sunday afternoon), they are getting… Read More »
We woke up on the fourth morning in San Antonio. I was surprised to see on a map that the only other state in the continental US where one can be further south than San Antonio is Florida. It was quite pleasant, however, in November. For our first stop, we headed out to the San… Read More »
After climbing Enchanted Rock and hanging out for a bit, we made our way back to the car, passing an emergency squad of firefighters headed for a rescue. We drove through the Hill Country of Texas for a couple of hours as we took the scenic route into San Antonio. One of the motivations for… Read More »
Looking back on our trip, I think my favorite part was Thanksgiving morning when we climbed Emerald Rock. Just driving through the hillside to get to the state park, I was expecting something impressive-looking. It never came. We were standing at the bottom and I still wasn’t impressed. But as we climbed the pink granite… Read More »
We had a beautiful drive on the morning of our second day, traveling through the hill country of Texas. For many summers while I was living in Israel, I taught seminary groups from Texas and many times I was told that the Texas hill country was similar to Israel’s hill country. Having been there now,… Read More »
We spent our first afternoon at Dinosaur Valley State Park. While we appreciated the tracks that the area is famous for, we also enjoyed our hike on a series of trails in the area. If my daughter tells you that we were kinda lost, don’t believe her. To get to the dinosaur tracks, you have… Read More »
We have lived in Texas for more than five years with about six months remaining. In that time we ‘ve taken advantage of Texas ‘ location to visit states north and east, but we have not visited Texas itself. Part of the reason for that is when we have time to travel in the summer,… Read More »
A friend of ours at church has a lease on a ranch northwest of Dallas. We had a good time. I ‘ll let the pictures speak for themselves. I ‘ll admit here publicly, for the sake of one of my friends, that I saw parts of Texas that were beautiful.