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I've wondered how you find balance between the two worlds. We have our only grandchildren, a 5 year old boy and his 2.5 year old sister, living with their parents in a house right around the corner from ours. We've gotten to where we think twice or three times about planning weekends or longer...

With the time and $$ required to get on and off the island (ferry takes some time and isn't cheap) plus the relative effort to set up camp, I'd do a 2 night minimum. From your post, I am not certain if you refer to going to Cape Lookout as in Cape Lookout National Seashore or specifically the...

A particularly unfortunate DUI Yes, here in NC an occupant of a vehicle parked on the shoulder of a road or in a city parking space can be charged with DUI even if the vehicle is not driven or has not been observed by law enforcement being driven. If it's on a public roadway/parking space and...

I believe the village, Jose Falcons, or both have a Facebook page. Either there or somewhere else specific I read mention of visitors first checking in at the Mexican station. Foy

Boquillas back-story My own research indicates the official border crossing closed soon after 9/11/01 and it re-opened in 2013. An acquaintance of mine who lives 30 miles outside of Terlingua, himself a self-taught off-the-grid living expert, was part of a grass-roots effort to build the solar...

Some reading and interwebs communities to consider May I suggest Big Bend Chat as a forum for gaining some perspective on the Big Bend area. There is a sub-forum for Big Bend Ranch State Park, also. I will also suggest a copy of the more recent edition of "Roadside Geology of Texas" (by...

Never heard of Old Pitt Jerry, I recognized the name of Joe Womack. The Womacks ran an office supply store in Dillon and while at mapping school there at Southwest Montana College in 1978, we'd buy odds and ends needed for drafting maps there. The Womacks are known for their newsletter...

The Frank Little story Frank Little was an organizer and a high-ranking officer in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), an anti-capitalism socialist/anarchist union formed in the early days of the 20th century. Being staunchly anti-capitalist, he was also a fierce anti-war activist, as...

We met 4 or 5 truckloads of people, some with trailers loaded with camping gear, before really noticing that the "single spokesman" and "all eyes straight ahead" behavior was present in all of the vehicles. As we met another dozen or so truckloads, we observed more carefully. From what we...