TOF, 1: Reconnect with nature and your family during a 
Texas Outdoor Family Workshop ... we tell you how on 
Passport to Texas

This is Passport to Texas

A thousand families and counting learned new outdoor 
skills because they spent a weekend at a Texas Outdoor 
family workshop.

07 -- It's a very basic concept where no experience is necessary, 
and we provide all the equipment for families to go camping in 
a state park.

Chris Holmes oversees the program, and says although 
the equipment families use is on loan, the skills they 
learn go home with them.

08 -- Our park rangers teach folks how to use a state park, how 
to camp properly and how to cook in the outdoors, and just 
have fun for the whole weekend for the whole family.

A huge benefit of the Texas Outdoor Family program is 
seeing family members reconnect with one another.

26 -- We hear instances where the children have just thanked us 
that their daddy is not using the blackberry, and he's not 
checking his email, and the fact that they all sat around a 
campfire -- the first time they've all been together as a family for 
months. And so, that's one of the wonderful things of parks -- it 
really charges you physically, spiritually and mentally. Families 
get together and get to enjoy each other's company, and that's 
what's really neat about this program.

Log onto the Texas Parks and Wildlife website and find a 
schedule of upcoming TOF workshops happening this 
fall. In fact there are two on September 11 -- one at Lost 
maples SP and the other on Galveston Island SP.

That's our show ... For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm 
Cecilia Nasti. 




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