Feeling like it’s time to travel again. For 2024, I’m going to start a new challenge: visit all of the 88 state parks in Texas, spread out over a couple years. Will try to camp at many but not all of them. Blog posts and photos along the way. 🗺️

@manton “time to travel”—time travel. Sorry. I have that on my mind.

@manton I had no idea that Texas has 88 state parks. I look forward to your blog posts.

@manton It’s been several years since I’ve been down (Wisconsin guy) but you’ve got some fun ones. Hueco Tanks was awesome. Monahans Sandhills was surreal to camp in, though it has serious oil country aroma. Big bend, of course. Now I’m thinking I need to get on the road again.. Have fun!

@manton That's a great goal — a sure way to see some great places you wouldn't otherwise make the time or effort to visit.

You might think about what you could collect or photograph or otherwise do to memorialize each visit. E.g., here in Washington State, the parks service commissioned a print for many of the state parks: https://washington.goingtocamp.com/store/all?departmentId=-32742.

@manton Looking forward to the random server tantrums that will happen at exactly the same time! Oh and also the pictures! 😋

@vincent Hahahaha 🙂 Get ready!

@maique @vincent Time to start a regular fundraising campaign: "Vincent's Coffee Pot"

@SimonWoods Hahahaha.. Vincent will spend months with no sleep!

@manton There’s a few duds in the bunch, but there’s a lot of really great ones. I’d have to count, but I imagine I’ve been to about 1/2 of them. Maybe only a 1/3.

@manton Oh, this sounds like a fun challenge!

@manton just do it sustainably 🙏😉

@Agiletortoise I haven't counted either but my guess is I've only been to about a dozen. I'm going to start over so I have a complete list. Some I haven't been to in many years anyway.

@manton It’s gotten so hard to get camping reservations at so many of them, sadly.

@Agiletortoise Yeah, it seems like it has to be months in advance for some parks. Although I just looked at a few there's plenty of availability. Maybe too cold for camping right now? Much better than too hot in Texas.

@manton @vincent Hahahahaha this is the curse of those who manage back-end infrastructure! :)

@manton Wooooo!!! I’m a big fan of quests like that (in fact, it’s #GoQuesting1692)

This might be helpful: goquesting.com/quests/te...

@rscottjones That's cool!