DFW day trips and backroad destinations
Kimball Bend, today, is an Army Corps. of Engineers park along Highway 174 in Bosque County Texas, near the Brazos River bridge. It’s a great place to spend several days, if you have an RV and a boat. It has river access and is located close to Lake Whitney. The park has been improved sometime [...]
Texas has a grand variety of historic county courthouses. Many of these historic county courthouses exist today, in part, because of an act passed in 1881 by the Texas legislature authorizing counties to sell bonds to finance the construction of new courthouses. This change of state law combined with the prosperity that followed the Civil [...]
I don’t often write first-person accounts of what I’m thinking on a given day. For one thing, I don’t think many people care. Second, the sort of mundane gruel I pump out here doesn’t require much explanation. Today is the exception. First, I want to explain