by TC | May 10, 2016 | TC's Big Adventure, Uncategorized
So we’ve been just south of Austin for the last week, having chosen a home close to where a FB friend lives (Hi Rhae!). Originally, we were planning on making the drive into Austin, but instead we just hung around soaking up the (almost) rural Texas life. Rhae...
by TC | Apr 20, 2016 | TC's Big Adventure
We left Santa Fe on Monday, arriving in Austin Wednesday afternoon, a trip of 668 miles in three days. We stopped at Amarillo, lunched in Lubbock, stopped at Abilene (which I now know how to spell, since I had to look up lodgings online), then on to Austin, where will...
by TC | Apr 3, 2016 | TC's Big Adventure
Everything they say about Spring Training is true. The stadium is small and easy to navigate. You don’t have to fight crowds, you’re really close to the field, you can see the players, there are lots of fly balls, the games are more interesting because...
by TC | Apr 3, 2016 | TC's Big Adventure
Driving along the road to the first outlook, I wondered if we were on the right road. The landscape to the left and right of the road looked the same — low level sagebrush. Yet when we pulled into the first overlook: BAM! The Canyon is at the center of the...
by TC | Apr 2, 2016 | TC's Big Adventure, Uncategorized
After the hot Mesa weather we woke up to: snow. WTF? We packed up and headed out. Earl Ruby told us about Sunset Crater, which is north of Flagstaff and since we were headed northeast to Canyon de Chelly (pronounced Canyon de Shay), we dropped by for a look. Boy,...
