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    How to Tube in Texas during the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Even though I’ve lived in Texas for a good chunk of my life, I think I’ve only been tubing maybe like three times? Recently, with all of this heat, I got the hankering to do something that wasn’t so hiking/planning/money intensive and tubing came up on my radar. I had seen someone post about how unpopulated the San Marcos river was and thought that would be a really cool way to spend a Saturday. As there aren’t many people on the river due to the city restrictions on getting in and out of the San Marcos river in the public parks, it can be pretty easy to social distance. But…

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    Day-trip to Big Thicket National Preserve – Texas Go-To During a Pandemic

    Big Thicket National Preserve – Where to go when there’s nowhere to go. What do you do when you are amidst a pandemic and have a four-day weekend for Memorial Day and all reservations are sold out in every state/national park in Texas you can think of? Answer: You go where no one would think to go. After plenty of of research, we’d decided on making a day-trip to Big Thicket National Preserve from Austin, Texas. Now, I know what you’re thinking – no one would think of going there because it wouldn’t be a place worth going. At least, that’s what I thought – at first. While Big Thicket…