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Purtis Creek State Park
We picked Purtis Creek State Park because it was on the Austin-side of Dallas. Our plan was to go camping for the weekend and then have my husband drop the boys and me at my parents in Dallas after we finished. It turns out, we couldn’t have picked a better park for the time of year. The park is built inside of a dense oak forest, which gave me the feeling of stepping back into time, before the relentless clearing of the post oak savannas occurred to make way for agriculture. When we arrived to the park at 11pm, we quickly set up camp and tucked-in for the night. Fact:…
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Goliad State Park
In February, Landon and his father started training for the Texas Water Safari. It’s a 260-mile canoe race that runs from San Marcos, TX to the Gulf of Mexico. Their training plan had them paddling weekday mornings and most weekends. While I had been doing my best to be supportive, they had been training EVERY Saturday. So I pitched a compromise: “How about we go camping somewhere you can paddle?” Our go-to river parks, Palmetto State Park and Guadalupe River State Park, were completely booked, so we decided try Goliad State Park! Neither of us had ever heard of it, but it advertised that it had a paddling trail. So…
