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Starting off on the good foot

A travel blog entry by ssolis19

My husband and I decided to take a big turn in our lives. To be honest it's not our first. We sold everything several years ago and moved to Mexico, so we're a bit experienced in the drop everything and leave part. This time around was a tad different though. Recently married the questions of a house, babies, big careers, etc floated in the air around us. As normal, we said nah. We didn't go the mortgage route, instead a house on wheel sounded ...

Gig' Em Ags!!

A travel blog entry by highway2gameday

... to wear one of his Florida shirts (I love ******* off Aggies) and soon after gameday ended I ran into a group Florida Gators who were happy to give me some of their alcohol. For the next couple of hours, Matt, Kevin and I jumped from tailgate to tailgate bumming booze and food off of people. Surprisingly, the Aggie fans were incredibly nice despite the fact that Kevin and I were decked out in Florida gear. In fact, the whole weekend we were suprised by the ...

Day 3 - Huntsville to College Station - 56 miles

A travel blog entry by cindysellsjohns

... Lewis rode in memory of Weston Laningham, an organ donor who passed in April 2011. Everyone did an excellent job speaking at the event. There were a lot of people and about 20 joined the bone marrow registry after the event.

We were able to take showers on campus after the event before our two hour drive to Sequin where we will stay for two night - that's always a treat since you don't have to load you luggage one morning.

Some of us had ...

I've always wanted to "GIG 'EM"...

A travel blog entry by azelling

Well there is not much in College Station, except of course Texas A&M university. We were here to visit my life long friend Ben Landon. We went to freebirds to get the largest burrito Ive ever had. Besides that there is not much to do here unless you want to fry an egg on the pavement. This was a relaxing stop before we headed to our much anticipated destination - Carlsbad caverns.

P.S. Gig 'Em ...

I scream, You Scream, We All Scream

A travel blog entry by francesandrew

... end of the tour we got a free tasting. We'd already tried vanilla, mango and southern blueberry cobbler elsewhere so I tried a Dutch Chocolate while Ben tried the mint choc chip. They were very nice. Very soft too. The recipes use high fructose corn syrup in their standard ice creams, but their "no sugar added" range doesn't, unfortunately it does use aspartame instead.

I managed to get a Blue Bell Creamery Silver Ice Cream Tub charm for my bracelet before we headed off to ...