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๐ฆ A Weekend of Parks pt. 1 No Alligators Please

Saturday October 14 & Sunday the 15th. One national Park, seven state parks, two times leaving due to alligators, one turn around due to treacherous cliff, one table of skulls, one night sleeping on a wooden bunk bed, three entrance bracelets and hundreds of butterflies. It started at 3am with a plan to drive five Continue reading
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๐Weekend Without a Partner

Hello from Austin Texas on the morning of October 9th. My partner is officially in India for the next few weeks and so I am adventuring solo. One idea I have been debating is to travel to random points of interest.I did decide to try this on my Sunday adventure, but this did not end Continue reading
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April Fools! 1960s Style

Saturday October 7th 8:53 am 62ยฐ F (17ยฐC) Austin, Texas First day at home alone for the next four weeks and I have officially begun the Rubik’s jigsaw puzzle. I haven’t fully decoded the pattern yet, but I have completed about 10% of the puzzle so far. I’m still in the process of sorting the Continue reading
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There IS an Aisle 35W at Target! ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฏ

October 6th, 2023. Austin, Texas 9:37 am. โ๏ธ 72ยฐ F (22ยฐ C) Last night I was tasked with visiting a Target supermarket that is 30 minutes away. They have a new snack that my partner wanted to try and so I made the trek, but there was one problem. My instructions said that the food Continue reading
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๐ Long Distance Journal Wrecking

October 4, 2023 11:32 pm Austin, Texas โ๏ธ 82ยฐ F (28ยฐ C) Got a letter in the mail that was in my own handwriting. I thought a letter had been lost in the mail and then returned to me, but this was a self-addressed stamped envelope that I had shipped to my pal Tony in Continue reading
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๐ Halloween Treats & Video Games

Austin, Texas. 8:51 am, ๐ฅ๏ธ 78ยฐ F (25.5ยฐ C). Disgaea 7 released yesterday and I’ve already got about 5 or 6 hours of play time in this game. One of my adventure goals is to beat a video game. Ever since switching to PC gaming, partially due to the difficulty in finding a PS5 or Continue reading
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โบTexas State Parks

Monday October 2nd, 11:58 pm ๐ 80ยฐ F (27ยฐ C) I am trying to up my stamp game with postcrossing as many stamp collectors use the site and I had one that specified that they do not want the round international stamps. It costs $1.50 right now to mail a regular size and weight postcard Continue reading
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๐ฆ Dinosaur Weekend

Sunday October 1st, 10:22 pm โ 82ยฐ F (28ยฐ C) The Dinosaur Park We spent $22 on an entrance fee and $1 for a post card at The Dinosaur Park just outside of Austin. This was one of many items that I have added to my adventure list in the last few months. Despite this Continue reading
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๐ Michigan Pt. 2

Tony Being cool. We purchased a doll head to launch in a homemade catapult. We spent around two hours making this contraption and argued about the best ways to use materials on hand. For example we used two zip ties in a loop to stop the catapult. This allowed us to tighten it down until Continue reading
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โ๏ธ Michigan pt. 1

It all begins with a flight from Austin to Detroit. Three comments about this. 1. The Detroit airport does not have useful signage. It’s surprisingly difficult to get out of this building. I worked with another Austin visitor and took the train pictured above and fumbled around the building until this was resolved. 2. The Continue reading
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๐คซA Secret Message

Austin, Texas Monday 9/11/23 8:31 โ 71ยฐ F (22ยฐ C). The sticker that I forgot to purchase during my visit to the San Antonio Missions Natural History Park has arrived. I have continued to use the method of placing these stickers that I learned from a ranger in Utah of cutting down the info sticker Continue reading
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Sat: San Antonio & Sunday Noods

Monday Sept. 4 (Labor Day) – 9:11 am – โ๏ธ 79ยฐ F (26ยฐ C) The plan for Saturday was to get up early and drive to San Antonio to visit the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park and get another stamp & sticker for my passport book… We only bought one sticker instead of two. Continue reading
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๐ Ants & Treants

๐ค๏ธ9:04 am. Austin, Texas. High of 98ยฐ F (36.6ยฐ C). I recently purchased an ant farm online. I was waiting to order ants and to learn more until the farm had been delivered. Yesterday was this day. Unlike the picture on the box this home uses white sand, not edible gel. I plan to feed Continue reading
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โ๏ธ Postcards & Eggs

โ๏ธ101ยฐ F (38.3ยฐ C) in Austin Texas at 3:45 pm. I am on my lunch break at work to report back that all of those books we checked out on our library adventure are due. You may recall that these books were checked out on my account by my wife as her account had too Continue reading
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๐ Ant Farm, Books, Creative Cooking

Austin, Texas – Wednesday August 23rd 9:34 am – โ 84ยฐ F (29ยฐ C) Today has been a research and prep day. I’ve been preparing to build a small alcohol stove, but there are a few items left to build this that I do not have such as fiberglass & epoxy. I do have a Continue reading
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