DFW day trips and backroad destinations
Breckenridge Texas is a town of 5700 residents in Stephens County Texas. I’ve been there but my good friend Shay calls Breckenridge home. She was good enough to share with us her perspective on what’s worth seeing in Breck. — Sam History The tremendous oil boom in 1917 at Ranger in Eastland County attracted attention [...]
I like to take a drive in the fall to see the fall foliage. November, leaves changing colors, and long drives in the country just seem to go together. If there’s one time of the year that I am most likely to drag out the tent and sleeping bags to go camping, it is this [...]
In a previous post I talked about several old town squares in the heart of Northwest Arkansas, and I concluded with the Rogers Historic District and Scenic Highway 12. That’s where I begin this post. Scenic Highway 12 in Northwest Arkansas passes through Rogers Arkansas and then through some truly beautiful Ozark countryside. Just the [...]