Where is it still cool in August, easy to get to from DFW airport? Portland, Oregon. It was ONE HALF THE TEMPERATURE in PORTLAND, compared to DALLAS. Yikes. A cool place, beyond the temperature, too, with: Mount...
The light is different here. Blues skies that often remind me of Southern France, or Northern Africa. On a trip to Fort Worth, we went to the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, where the architecture*...
Catamaran sailing, as a newbie, being trained on boats with volunteer teachers. Great fun. It is not too hard to try as a novice, yet has lots of fine points - which reward one with a direct...
Claire says "It's not camping if it's in our backyard, Dad." SO, we next went to camp in Holly's Dad's backyard (where the sprinklers hit us pretty hard at 5AM (you'd think I'd have learned about this...