Welcome! We are Anne Cornell Mason and Aaron Mason and we live in Austin, Texas. In November 2010, we met (for the second time, but that's another story) online and started seeing each other. In December of 2010, the city of Austin cancelled it's annual Trail of Lights. I heard on the radio about a nearby town that has a lovely lights trail in December so I suggested it to Aaron. We drove out to La Grange, Texas, to view the lights. We got there a little early, while it was still daylight, and ended up wandering into the county courthouse, which was beautifully decorated for Christmas. While enjoying the courthouse, I mentioned to Aaron that my parents had started visiting all 254 county courthouses in Texas, but had moved to Colorado before they were finished. He said, "That sounds like fun. Let's do that." And so began our epic courtship while traveling around Texas, searching out rural courthouses, and getting to know each other in the space of a car. After 1 year, Aaron proposed to me and we added finding a courthouse in which to get married to our project. 2 years later, almost to the day, we finished visiting all 254 Texas county courthouses. March 11, 2013, we got married in the Ellis County courthouse in Waxahachie, which was documented by KFAA news in Dallas. The Texas Senate and House both recognized us as the Official Courthouse Couple. All of this is documented in our first blog, TexasCourthouseTour.blogger.com.
For our wedding present, we "registered" for a small RV trailer from Scamp. Our 13 foot Scamp is the motivation for this, our newest project, to visit all of the Texas State Parks. This project will take us a lot longer since we intend to experience each state park to its fullest extent. We won't visit several in a day as we did with the courthouses. When possible, we will camp overnight, preferably in our Scamp. We will seek out the Civilian Conservation Corps buildings and features, hike the trails, fish the lakes, etc. However, our experience has taught us that weather doesn't always cooperate with plans, so we will list additional places to go and things to do in case of inclement weather.
Happy travels!
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