Author: Laci

Close to Home: Grapevine Vintage Railroad

After visiting the Grapevine Museum we headed across the road to visit the Grapevine Vintage Railroad. From here you can take a train to the Fort Worth Stockyards. At Christmas time the Vintage Railroad turns into the Polar Express! If you like trains check out these other train related posts! Colorado Galveston Frisco I hope

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Paperback Perils: The Near Witch

Title: The Near WitchAuthor: V.E. SchwabPublication Date: 2020Publishing House: TITAN BOOKS I have read a number of V.E. Schwab books and I enjoyed this one quite a bit. I discovered it when wondering Barns and Noble a few weeks ago along with Walk the Wild with Me. A note on the publication date: this book

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Cellarman’s Pub and Brewery

After our camping trip and a bit more hiking around Eisenhower State Park we were starving and decide to grab some lunch but we had Bear with us and didn’t know any place that was dog friendly. A quick internet search and I found Cellarman’s Pub and Brewery. Smoking is allowed on the patio, but

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Hiking Eisenhower State Park

Like I said in my original post about Eisenhower State Park, we didn’t get to do nearly as much hiking as we would have liked due to the trails being super muddy but we did get a bit in and the trails over looking the lake are gorgeous! The non-muddy portions of the trail were

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Visitor’s Guide: Eisenhower State Park

For Christmas Keltin and I purchased ourselves a new tent but we didn’t want to wait until spring to test it out so we decided to plan a winter camping trip to Eisenhower State Park on Lake Texoma. We decided on this state park in part due to the reviews in Best Tent Camping and

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Paperback Perils: Walk the Wild with Me

Title: Walk the Wild with MeAuthor: Rachel AtwoodPublication Date: 2019Publishing House: Daw Books, INC. It has been way too long since I posted a book review but I am back at it and back reading. This is a simple, magical story and it seemed to call to me. From Goodreads: In this new historical fantasy,

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The Music of Tchaikovsky and Jorgens

Last weekend Keltin and I went to the Meyerson to see the Dallas Symphony perform. This is the first one we have been to in a couple of months and we were in love with the music. The first piece was Jongen’s Symphonie Concertante for Organ and Orchestra Op. 81 in four movements. Something that

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