365 DAYS: This Texas State University lecturer visited 95 
state parks in one year ... meet him on Passport to Texas.

This is Passport to Texas

A dream is a wish your heart makes. So says the song 
from the 1950 Disney classic, Cinderella. Perhaps the 
night Dale Blas-in-game had a dream about driving 
around the country -- his heart was revealing its 
deepest wish.

11 -- I woke up that next day, and it was all I could think about -- 
and I was coming to the end of the semester and I was about to 
have a break. And so I just decided to go for it. And so, I went on 
this trip across the entire west.

During his travels, Dale -- a social journalism lecturer 
at Texas State University -- visited national parks. 

13 -- When I got home, it was one of those vacation blues type 
things, where I was just kind of bored. And a friend of mine 
suggested that I go to a state park. And, that kind of spawned 
the whole thing.

That "thing": visit Texas' 95 state parks in a single 
year. He writes about his journey in the 
January/February issue of TPW magazine.

20 -- I really didn't do a ton of planning. There were a couple of 
times I took big, huge trips and I would hit 15 or 18 parks at one 
time. But it really just kind of started as: 'Okay, here's this one. 
This is the next closest one -- I'm going to go there ... " I'd wake 
up on a Saturday morning, or I'd think about it the Friday the 
night before, and ask: "Where am I going to go tomorrow?"

Tomorrow Dale Blas-in-game tells us how he found a 
hiking buddy. Read his story, One is Not Enough, in 
the January/February issue of TPW magazine.

That's our show ... Funding provided in part by Ram 
Trucks. Guts. Glory. Ram. 

For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti.


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