Landlubber Interlude: Taking on Texas Part 1
I know this blog is supposed to be about our travels by sea, but after receiving many heartfelt requests from my adoring fans (or tacit agreement from some random people I happened to talk to recently) I agreed to write a post about our latest trip over land. We went to Texas! It would be very difficult to get here by boat. No, we didn't take the trawler, but I guess you could say we took a land yacht. Justin and I rented an RV for the week so that I could have constant access to a bathroom everywhere we went. As you might remember from much of my whining in previous posts, Justin and I are not the sort of people to rough it, so our concept of camping includes hot showers, temperature regulation, and flushable toilets. An RV was the only way to bring those luxuries to the remote locations we had in mind. Before I get into where we went, I'd like to tell you a little more about who went there. Obviously Justin and I were on board. (I thought about leaving Justin in