Family Travel

My family of 12 was once referred to as “a small country.” Growing up in a four-bedroom house in Houston…

I’ve explored many remote locales across Texas, so most people assume that I’m a seasoned camper. But here’s the real…

Casting my line into the water, I smiled to think I was no bigger than the little girl across from…

Winding around a curve on Park Road 36 on the way to the eastern shores of Possum Kingdom Lake, I breathe a sigh of…

Luci Johnson, the youngest daughter of President Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson, admits that her love of nature came later…

My kids and I are near the end of the 1½-mile Wood Duck Trail at the Heard Natural Science Museum…

Babs Rodriguez recalls her German mother-in-law’s Big Bend epiphanies. Here’s the full story from the February 2014 issue of Texas…

I’ll confess that I have never been a big zoo fan—until recently, that is. I blame the small, sad zoos…

After he turned 80, it was difficult to get my Pop to leave the house. I found it hard to…

I grew up in a family devoted to road-trips, but they were not just a vacation thing. Weekends often found…

In the November issue of Texas Highways, Babs Rodriguez remembers awkward childhood visits to Grandmother. Here’s the full story.

In the October 2013 issue of Texas Highways, Babs Rodriguez’s account of a fall fishing getaway shows how so many…