Leaving early on a Saturday morning from our homes in South Texas, we headed West on Interstate 10 in the fog that seems to show up every third day or so here. Our destination in about 9 hours is Guadalupe Mountains National Park. The park is in and named for the Guadalupe Mountains of West
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Waco Mammoth National Monument our #NPS 100 Road Trip
Imagine it is a spring day in 1978, you are a teenager out looking for arrow head in creek in South Texas. You are walking down a creek and instead of an arrowhead you find a large bone. Luckily Paul Barron and Eddie Bufkin Recognizing the unusual nature of the find, they removed the bone
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San Antonio Missions – The United States newest UNESCO World Heritage site
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to visit the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park and by sure luck the day before our visit the park became the newest USESCO world Heritage site in the United States. The group of former missions includes not just active churches, but also farmlands, living quarters, granaries,
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