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Hi! We’re Rory and Kristi Glasgow. For as long as we have been together, which is over 30 years now, we have enjoyed driving and exploring the highways and back roads of Texas and beyond. Small towns, landmarks, museums, and even kitschy tourist traps draw our interest. We especially love learning local history! All of… Continue reading Welcome!

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Chalk Cemetery Road

November 16, 2024 For various reasons, it’s been a while since we’ve explored any new routes. It’s not that we haven’t been out and about, but we’ve been revisiting favorite places since our Old Bryan Road adventure. Today, we spent a relaxing Saturday together, eating lunch at our favorite restaurant, doing some shopping for Christmas… Continue reading Chalk Cemetery Road

Old Bryan Road

September 29, 2024 Kristi wanted smoked pork chops, and since it would take hours to procure, prepare, and smoke our own, we decided to take the easy route and visit Woody’s Smokehouse in Centerville, Texas, the seat of Leon County. This opened up an opportunity for an adventure. We’re running out of new roads to… Continue reading Old Bryan Road

Metal Menagerie II

We keep finding interesting statues and yard art in our travels. Rather than expand on the original Metal Menagerie post, I hope to make this a series. So, here is the second installment! The KML file has been updated with the new locations. Download it and import it into your favorite mapping software. Metal Menagerie… Continue reading Metal Menagerie II

Old Mason Road

May 25, 2024 This is the second in a series of posts about our explorations in the Texas Hill Country in late May 2024. Old Mason Road runs from Ranch Road 386, just north of Mason, Texas, to Ranch Road 1222 in Katemcy (pronounced “ka-TIM-see”), located in northern Mason County. It crosses the Mason Mountains,… Continue reading Old Mason Road

More Wildflowers

May 5, 2024 With the flooding that is going on in Southeast Texas right now, I think it is a good idea to take a moment and think back to happier times when the weather was fairer. Please enjoy the images of flowers, below, that we took recently on various adventures. The first set of… Continue reading More Wildflowers