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Day 21 of our road trip - boy, are we glad we pushed through the night before and made it all the way to Joshua Tree National Park so that in the morning, we didn't have to drive any meaningful distance to get to the park. It was nice
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Day 20 was a push! Our Goal, now, is to get up to Northern California to see my Cousin Eric and his Family and then hang out with my friend George and his family, so we decided that we would push on through to Joshua Tree in one BIG day
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We are on the 19th day of this trip. We woke up to a beautiful sunrise outside of Lincoln NM. I made us some coffee, and then we headed out. We went into the historic town of Lincoln, where Billy the Kid made his escape, but alas, it was a
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Well, it is time to start the journey home. It is hard to believe that the trip is already half over. So far, everything, other than viewing the actual eclipse, has exceeded our expectations, and even that is ok. The eclipse was just an excuse to see how well the
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The 2024 Eclipse is in the bag, and our trip continues. We took our chances with the weather and stayed in place here at the Hill Country Arts Foundation, and, while the opportunity to see the sun in all of its glory was heavily impacted by the clouds, the experience
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Two weeks into our eclipse road trip, we are settling into the Hill Country Arts Foundation property in a wonderful campsite. Tomorrow is the eclipse, and we are hoping for clear weather, but that is looking sketchy at the moment. This past week has been a wonderful week, traveling from
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Sunday, Kai, Catherine, and I took a day trip from the Hill Country Arts Foundation out to Fredericksburg Tx about a 30-minute drive away. Once there, we spent about three hours walking up and down the main street and poking our heads into different shops and galleries. It was
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Day 13 finds us in Ingram, TX. A coworker of mine, Joyce, lives in the area (and in Texas, that means within a 90-minute drive), and we had been talking about having her drive out and meet us and bring us some BBQ from her favorite place near where
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Day 14 finds us heading from the Black Gap Wildlife Management area toward Ingram and the Hill Country Arts Foundation where we will be spending the next several days viewing the eclipse from. We did not set an alarm so we managed to sleep in quite late, and it was
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After driving through Big Bend National Park in the dark the evening before, it was wonderful to go through the park in the daylight. This park is massive. We decided to drive along the scenic road that is 30 miles out to the Rio Grande and 30 miles back to
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Day 12 sees us leaving the BLM campground that we stayed at and driving about 23 miles to Carlsbad Caverns National Park. We had tickets for the 8:30 entrance, so we were out of the campsite before I even had a chance to make our coffee. Fortunately, we are
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Day 11 found us actually traveling only a short distance. We woke up in the morning at the Texas Safety rest area, where we had stopped the night before because the campground we had booked was on the other side of the park, and there wasn't a road