Comfort Inn & Suites Lake Texoma Denison

We’ve been staying and visiting different towns in Texas since September 4th. Whenever possible, we’ve tried to utilize our Thousand Trails Naco membership where we’ve been members since 1987. We only pay a yearly maintenance fee so camping at the various preserves is free. That’s surely a plus!!!

First stop wa...

Since this is my first entry and first blog for that matter, I am going to step back in time and we find me in Pottsboro, TX(in search of slabsides) April '08, and I found one, and only one. "One is the loniest number since the number one"(Three Dog Night). A big bugger at that. But only one, drats! Where's your bro's. Come on man, fill my bucke...

I drove north from Dallas up to Sherman, and checked out Austin College, where I went to school from 1994 to 1997, before transferring to Washington University. I saw several of my old professors: Don Salisbury, my physics professor and mentor, Kerry Brock (calculus), and Mark Monroe, my sculpture professor. Mark gave me the tour of their new ar...

It is January in the middle of winter and already the anticipation is building. We are looking forward to the adventures that we will have this summer as we embark on a multifacited vacation. We will be including the wedding of my niece during this vacation. We will also be traveling with another family, my wife's sister and her husband with the...

As we continued east from Gainesville, the scenery is mainly tan grass in pastures, barbed wire fence, and scattered farming and ranching equipment. Not much to see. But in the boonies near Sherman, Texas, there is another Goode: Jay Goode. Jay runs a sandblasting business, and he has a Muffler Man out next to his shop. Next Stop: The Airport fo...

We got up bright and early on the day we were to leave for the birthday trip. JoAnn and Dan Ecker came by to get me and we drove to Van Alstyne where we met up with their daughter Heather. Heather, JoAnn and I were going on the trip. Dan had to stay home with the dogs. From Van Alstyne, we traveled to Dallas to DFW Airport. I had never been on t...

We got up bright and early on the day we were to leave for the birthday trip. JoAnn and Dan Ecker came by to get me and we drove to Van Alstyne where we met up with their daughter Heather. Heather, JoAnn and I were going on the trip. Dan had to stay home with the dogs. From Van Alstyne, we traveled to Dallas to DFW Airport. I had never been on t...

April 11: Big Picture Take-Aways Hospitality; Family/Community/Passion for Country; Love of Brother/One Another; Political; Spiritual; Abercrombie & Kent; Bottom Line Hospitality The countries we visited are inherently hospitable, in a way Americans have long forgotten. The bands that welcomed us; the natives holding trays of cold drinks for...

Pre-Trip Itinerary: NYC-Dallas, commercial flight Leave NY about noon and arrive home at 3:00. Live Report Went to LGA by hotel shuttle and awaited my plane's departure to DFW. Lo and behold! We flew on a 757. What are the odds? Can I even tell you how narrow the center aisle was? Almost couldn't pull my wheelie bag down it. And the seats were o...

KATIE: We have a great time in Dallas, we have been staying with my mum's cousins Evelyn and Jessica and have been very well looked after. We spent the first night with Evelyn and went to Dealy plaza where JFK was shot, it was interesting, we went up to the 6th Floor museum from where he was supposedly shot. It was funny watching the tourists tr...