El Camino de Estevan (A Texas Road Trip)

The Garagan family embarks on an epic road trip through Texas with stops in Dallas, La Grange, Goliad, Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Houston, and Corsicana.

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Wednesday, June 5. Headed back home. Thanks for joining our excursion. Nos vemos abajo el camino.

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Tuesday, June 4. Rangers game at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas.

Above: "I don't always bake in the Texas summer heat, but when I do, I drink water. Stay hydrated my friends."

-The Most Interesting Man In The World

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Monday, June 3. Grand Prairie, Texas.

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Monday, June 3. Grand Prairie, Texas.

Above: A spouse-authorized visit to Longhorn Harley, Grand Prairie. Texas.

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Monday, June 3. Shopping. Just. Shopping.

Above: Kyle, Tucker, Elle, and Finn Garagan are having BBQ at Rudy's and Greg Garagan ain't.

Above: How to talk, "Texan".

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Sunday, June 2. Six Flags Over Texas amusement park. Arlington, Texas.

Above: Where to begin?

Above: The Spelunker Pirate Cave.

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Saturday, June 1. Road trip total: 1092 miles.

"I saw miles and miles of Texas

All the stars up in the sky

I saw miles and miles of Texas

Gonna live here 'til I die."

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Saturday, June 1. Houston to Grand Prairie, Texas. 252 miles with a court-ordered stop at a Buc-ees.

Above: 35 miles from home we experienced a typical Texas biblical deluge known as a, " frog strangler."

Above: 20 foot visibility reduces speed to 15 mph on I-45.

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Saturday, June 1. Leaving Houston and headed back to Grand Prairie, Texas. With stops at McDonalds (for zero gravity fries), the cowboy boot house, old Sparky, and the Sam Houston giant statue in Huntsville, Buc-ees wall o' j-j-jerky in Madisonville, and Tucker Town BBQ (thanks to Elle) in Corsicana. While the road trip portion of the vacation is complete, there are still three days of local thrills to go. Stay tuned, adventure fans.

Above: Can't skip Buc-ees, it's the law.

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Friday, May 31. Houston, Texas.

All worn out from a long day at NASA.

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Friday, May 31. More NASA. Houston, Texas.

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Friday, May 31. Johnson Space Center (NASA) in Houston.

Above: Bound for Mars.

Above left. Made in Canada (space shuttle cargo bay)

Above right: The Orion capsule in building 9S, the vehicle mockup center.

Space Center Houston | Bringing people & space closer together

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Above: San Antonio to Houston. (Clear lake) 225 miles.

Above left: Mission Control center.

Above right: Saturn V building.

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Thursday, May 30. Dinner at Landry's Seafood on the Riverwalk followed by the, "Saga of San Antonio", projected on the 274 year-old San Fernando Cathedral.

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Thursday, May 30. Mission San Antonio de Valero. (The Alamo)

T-Shirts

WHATASTORE

Alamo Mission - Wikipedia

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Thursday, May 30. No caption necessary.

Above: Roger gets road trip therapy.

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Thursday, May 30. Legoland at River Center Mall in SATX. Every place we visited in San Antonio is represented in Lego models.

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Thursday, May 30. The fabulous 166 year-old Menger Hotel in San Antonio, Texas. Below: The courtyard where Teddy Roosevelt recruited the Rough Riders in 1898.

Below: The Van Ness painting, "Venting Cattle on the Frisco System", from Bick Benedict's office in the 1956 film epic, "Giant".

Menger Hotel - Wikipedia