Ugh! We are home. We put more than 10,000 miles on the car.

LBJ loved the Texas hill country. It’s where he was born and raised. As a child he loved swimming in the Pedernales River.

Though we all started the night in our hammocks, at some point, Kati moved into the car and G3 got out his sleeping pad and pillow and...

Balmorhea State Park has the largest spring fed swimming pool in the world. It was built in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps.

Yep, G3 and I went swimming in the Rio Grande—near the Cottonwood campground—and what’s more exciting—we swam to Mexico…

I enjoyed the hike, even though I was alone. It reminded me of all those trips I took abroad before G3 was born.

Today was somewhat of a lazy day. We have one more night here at Guadalupe National Park, but we did more yesterday than we expected.

While Carlsbad has the biggest cave chamber in North America—so large that two US Capitol Buildings could fit inside—Mammoth Cave…

White Sands National Park—unlike Petrified Forest—is exactly what it sounds like. Miles and miles and miles—275 square miles to be exact.

Breaking Bad for G3. Petroglyphs for me. Wine for Kati.

For lunch, G3 wanted to go to Twisters, which in Breaking Bad is Los Pollos Hermanos.

The Petrified Forest is not a forest, as Kati was disappointed to discover. In fact, there are practically no trees in the park.

Our big stop of the day was at Mesa Verde National Park to see the Pueblo cliff dwellings.