Texas
El Paso
El Paso was the first city we came into in Texas. We stayed a few hours East of El Paso.
Sierra Blanca
We stayed in Sierra Blanca for a few weeks with a great family! We stayed out on their homestead of 160 acres with chickens, turkeys, & cows.
Van Horn
Big Bend National Park
We drove through Big Bend when we left Sierra Blanca on our way to San Antonio.
Fort Stockton
San Antonio
We stayed South of San Antonio in Pearl River and were able to go and explore San Antonio one day.
Pleasanton
We stayed with an engineer in Pleasanton for a few days. We enjoyed our stay and got to see a greener part of Texas
Pleasanton
We stayed with an engineer in Pleasanton for a few days. We enjoyed our stay and got to see a greener part of Texas
Corpus Christi
We made it to the beach in Corpus Christi! Our first time seeing the Atlantic ocean.
Padre Island
This is South of Corpus Christi and we were able to camp on the beach. It was cold but still loads of fun.
Victoria
We got stuck in Victoria for a few days during the crazy Texas snowstorm. We stayed in a Walmart parking lot for 3 days.
Beaumont
El Paso
We didn’t spend much time in El Paso but we did try Peter Piper Pizza because HELLO Peter! Katelyn loves to sing the old nursery rhyme about Peter Piper. The set up was cool with good pizza and an arcade.
Sierra Blanca
We stayed in Sierra Blanca for a few weeks with an awesome family. We were able to go to Carlsbad NM while here and explored the surrounding areas. We spent lots of time getting to know our host and checking out the small town of Sierra Blanca. We spent time hanging out with our host’s animals and enjoying the beautiful sunsets. The area was gorgeous and our hosts are our favorite people we’ve met along the way! SHOUTOUT TO FRED – He’s the nicest guy who recently migrated to Texas from Tennessee!
To the left is Peter in a large wash (7ft tall!) on our Host’s property.
This is Steven. Steven is a female white turkey – they thought she was a male thus the name Steven (Shoutout to our brothers who both happen to be named Steven). Steven was the sweetest turkey and loved to get pets and talked to. They used to ride with our host Fred in the car!
San Antonio
San Antonio was awesome! We went to the Alamo, the Ranger Museum, and rode scooters from downtown to The Pearl. We spent just one day in San Antonio but fit lots of fun into the trip. Towards the end of the night Katelyn got scared because the sun was going down and we had no idea where our truck was.
The first set of photos below are of The Alamo. We weren’t allowed to take any photos of the inside but these are a few things we saw outside.
All of the images in this section are of The Ranger Museum. There were hundreds of animal taxidermy within the museum including elephants, buffalo, and deer with odd horns. Some of the deer and elk had horns that curled into their mouths and odd directions.
Peter got to shoot some targets and Katelyn finally got a set of long legs with the use of a fair mirror!
Pleasanton
We stayed in Pleasanton for a short while. This is where we tried Alligator (Katelyn’s new favorite food!) for the first time. We were also able to go to The Longhorn Museum and experienced a torrential downpour. As Oregonians, we were sure we had seen the hardest of rains which we HAD NOT!
All of the images in this section are from the longhorn museum. The creepiest of them being a wreath of hair that was over a hundred years old.
There were tons of taxidermy but the only one worth an image was the Lion.
Corpus Christi / Padre Island
We spent a few days camped on the beach of North Padre Island. We ate lots of seafood (both in Corpus Christi and on Padre Island) and tried frog legs for the first time. We enjoyed the abundance of birds and spent most of our time avoiding the cold!
All of the images in this section are from Padre Island. We spent a lot of time enjoying the beach and eating seafood. We fed the seagulls and had a fire one night. Katelyn froze her feet in the sand but overall Padre Island was beautiful.