Caprock Canyon State Park

Our real first camping trip finally began! Robert took me to one of his favorite camping places, Caprock Canyon State Park (most will always be Texas State Parks)!

Now this was the first time he was actually taking me someplace for more than a nights stay. Also this would be the first time I would be staying in a tent that wasn’t on the ground. That’s right - rooftop tenting. 

This was our kickass weekend home:

Robert also bought a trasharoo for this trip. The trasharoo is the backpack looking thing on the back of Robert’s spare tire. You put a trash bag inside and then throw all of your trash into it. That way you don’t have trash spreading across the campsite, and you don’t have to keep up with it. 

Now what makes Caprock Canyon one of the coolest Texas State Parks is that they have the Texas wild bison herd located here. I was going to happy if I saw like one bison, but these fuckers came and stayed next to our camp for our entire stay (and almost blocked us in from leaving).

HOW

FREAKING

BADASS

Anyways you were suppose to say about 50 yards away from them, but we found that somewhat difficult to do since at night (in the pitch black darkness) they literally were staying next to the bathroom doors. They weren’t really scared of cars or humans, and weren’t skittish so it made it a lot easier to move around them when we were walking and or hiking.

Oh also Caprock has wild prairie dogs! 

Anyways... 

Robert brought me out here for another reason: hiking

He wanted to hike a very particular trail to get some good photography shots (not saying this just because I’m the girlfriend - but Robert has some serious talent and he definitely picked it up from his dad).

You don’t understand the struggle that went in to get to this bloody trail starting point. Not only did we have to walk down an extremely steep, low-grade mini mountain, but we also had to climb up it’s twin to get to this peak. I was physically fine and not bothered by the extreme stress this hiking up and down peaks took on my kneecaps, but Robert on the other hand had a difficult time. He also kept getting cramps so we’d walk about 20 feet and then he’d have to stop and take a break, BUT eventually we got to the trail.

Here are the photos captured on the Eagle Pt. Trail 

20,000 steps and like 3.5/4 hours later we finally made it back to our campsite. It didn’t take long for the sun to start setting after our big “adventure” and the sky was just beautiful. Robert started cooking our dinner - chili. This was the first time I had ever eaten’ chili, and after this trip, I don’t mind eating it even at home.

After a good night's sleep, and the sometimes murmuring sound of the bison nearby it was eventually time to get back up. We packed up camp and headed home. This was by far an excellent trip, and one that I will always remember.

October 27 - 29, 2016

Yesterland Farm

When Aubrey (the wife) and I were getting our nails done I came across a Groupon for a corn maze, pumpkin patch, kinda place. Of course it being October I got really excited because of course being a true adult like myself - WHO THE HECK DOESN’T WANT TO GO TO A PUMPKIN PATCH BEFORE HALLOWEEN?!

So Aubrey and I decided we were going and bring our men along with us, we picked and date, and before you knew it - bam, we were at Yesterland Farm!

It wasn’t until we got there that we noticed this place was not a normal pumpkin patch place. That Yesterland Farm, saying it was a family friendly place, was actually geared towards er.. families (by families I mean with like wee humans and the smaller humans that can actually talk and walk). 

I was in my element (since let’s be honest I’m like kid in an adult body) while the other tree in my party (the real adults) were not so much in their element. However, they went forth into Yesterland Farms with me because:

1. I had already purchased the Groupon and one must not let a Groupon go to waste
2. We just drove an hour
3. I wanted a motherfuckin’ pumpkin

So onwards we went...

Aubrey got super excited about the pig races. Apparently pig races here in Texas can be a very big thing. However, these pigs were not very excited to race, and in fact, did not want to race one bit. It was very sad.

However, they did have a pretty cool looking petting zoo that we hit up after the not very good pig running race thing. They even had really talkative turkeys that definitely would’ve picked your eyes out if they were allowed out of their cage.

Look my ass met a real ass, hahaha.

My Group:

After the awesome sauce petting zoo we started exploring around and we found a nice little area that was setup for photos. So of course, we took more obligated fall/pumpkin photos. 

After our  obligated fall/pumpkin photos I found small baby animals that you could go touch and feed! So the wife and I went in as the men stood outside, debating how they would off themselves if they had to continue this little outing for five more minutes..

I LOVE MINI COWS! 

Eventually we went through a  corn maze. That was so exciting. After the corn maze Aubrey spotted this massive rocking chair that I had somehow missed at the entrance of this place.

At the end Robert and I broke off from Aubrey and Dustin. Aubrey and Dustin went to go get an expensive, like $8 sugar filled lemonade, while I went to go hunt down which pumpkins I wanted.

Here were the pumpkins Robert and I ended up with (Robert was originally not going to get a pumpkin, but a few puppy dog eyes later and he agreed to get one and carve it with me when it got closer to Halloween)

October 15, 2016