Vicki Baker Holidays at the Arboretum featured the magnificent The 12 Days of Christmas outdoor display, as well as 500,000 lights throughout the park trimming the architecture of the historic homes and lighting the canopies overhead. Girls on Wheels spent one enchanted evening at the botanical gardens in December creating an unforgettable experience and memories…
Vicki Baker One of the many memorable catchphrases from the 1939 film version of The Wizard of Oz was the refrain “Lions and tigers and bears. Oh, my!” spoken by Dorothy and her companions as they prepared to enter a dark, forbidding forest on their way to Oz. Girls on Wheels, however, didn’t journey down any…
Vicki Baker You’ve heard about classes to make expensive 30 bottle batches of wine; but none gives you the opportunity to make just one bottle. Well, Wine Fusion Winery in Historic Downtown Grapevine does and Girls on Wheels had a chance to become wine makers for a day. We never really thought about the marriage…
Vicki Baker One of the most unique aspects of the Dallas-Fort Worth area is the seamless blend of city with country life. While DFW is among the top five largest metroplexes in Texas, there is still easy access to beautiful landscapes, stunning wildlife and perhaps most specific to Fort Worth – horseback riding. Fort Worth…
Vicki Baker Get ready racers. Rev your engines. And put the pedal to the metal. Girls on Wheels were looking for something new and exciting to do; we were looking for an adrenaline rush and found it at K1 Speed – indoor go-kart racing. Most people picture go-karts as loud, smoke-belching beasts that guzzle…
Vicki Baker Girls on Wheels, though not thrill seekers, had only dreamed about skydiving. We knew we could never take that first step out of a plane flying at 13,000 feet. But at iFly Indoor Skydiving our dreams came true. We arrived at iFLY bursting with excitement – we were going skydiving! We received…
Vicki Baker Maxine hit the nail on the head, “When I asked for a smoking hot body, menopause wasn’t quite what I had in mind!” For those women who have experienced “the change,” hot flashes, insomnia, memory loss, expanding waistlines, failing eyesight, night sweats and mood swings, there’s just nothing funny about those annoying symptoms.…
Vicki Baker Driving around the city of Waxahachie it is evident it is steeped in history. Before the turn of the century and well into the 1920s when “cotton was king,” Waxahachie was one of the wealthiest and most influential cities in Texas. Once at the center of the cotton boom, large landowners made millions…
Vicki Baker Ever wanted to explore a new area of the city but didn’t know where to start? Well if you’re visiting the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens there is a new and innovative way to explore the park without taking a single step. How is that possible? Why a Segway, of course. You’re probably thinking…
Vicki Baker A rich man who ran for president, dinosaurs, stars, the human body, evolutionary cycles, these seem to be random topics without any unifying logic, but this is exactly what we encountered at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science during our April outing. The beginning paragraph may be a bit misleading. There was…