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2018 On The Road Again
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2018 On The Road Again

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    Bon Secour - NWR, AL

    30 de março de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

    Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge, despite it being Spring Break is almost deserted. Hiked along a sandy trail, past Gator Lake (no gators) to Little Lagoon. Saw lizards, a frog and a snake swimming. Then hiked through the sand dunes to the beach on the Gulf of Mexico. Beautiful white sandy beaches with very few people, had the beach to ourselves for our picnic. Ospreys catching fish and flying overhead and pelicans flying low along the surf. Also on the beach snowy plovers and a willet (a bit like curlew) feeding along the surf line.Leia mais

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    Fort Morgan, AL

    1 de abril de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

    Fort Morgan is a historic masonry Pentagonal bastion fort at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama, dates from 1830s. Interesting museum and walk round the fort. Then to the beach for lunch. Again white sands and lots of birds, snowy plovers along the shore, gulls, terns, brown pelicans and ospreys fishing and a blue heron that certainly was not afraid of us. Another highlight was a pod of dolphins just offshore. All along the spit of Fort Morgan there are multi-coloured beach houses on stilts.Leia mais

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    La Fonda on Main - San Antonio, TX

    18 de abril de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C

    Neal Carmickle, thank you for recommending La Fonda on Main, it was superb. Some of the best Mexican food we’ve eaten and the margarita on the rocks rocked !! Stew enjoyed his Mexican beers, Negra Modelo and Bohemia. We ate outside on the patio and fed crushed chips to sparrows, or spuggies as our neighbour Edna in Brechin calls them. They’re just like the ones back in the UK, except Stew says they have different accents, Mexican perhaps ??Leia mais

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    The River Walk - San Antonio, TX

    18 de abril de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

    After dinner stroll round The River Walk in downtown San Antonio. The place was buzzing with people eating, drinking and shopping on the side of the river. Amazing huge trees lined the river and boats that looked like colourful landing craft cruised round. Bronze statue if of a longhorn cattle drive. Mariachi bands were playing outside a couple of the restaurants. Thanks Ernie and Pat Corbello for telling us about this.Leia mais

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    The Alamo-San Antonio, TX

    19 de abril de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

    Interesting visit to The Alamo the scene of the 1836 battle between the Mexicans and Texicans. Met a Yorkshire man, dressed in period clothing, in the Living History area who was talking about the guns used and there was also a ‘doctor’ with his implements terrorising 2 young girls as he described in detail how life was at the mission. Our friend Ernie Corbello’s ancestors settled here from the Spanish Canary Islands in 1831. Their surname was originally Curbelo. Fantastic trees, live oaks and pecans , and cacti in bloom in the grounds.Leia mais

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    San Jose Mission -San Antonio, TX

    19 de abril de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

    Interesting tour round the San José Mission which dates back to mid-1700s. Founded by the Franciscans who wanted to convert American Indians to religion and they lived in the quarters round the open square. The church is now catholic and still in use today. The pomegranate trees were in bloom with bright orange flowers. Temperature was around 80F with a breeze, so quite pleasant.Leia mais

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    Travelers World Resort ? - Terlingua, TX

    21 de abril de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

    Resort ?? More like a quarry, well we are in the desert 🌵
    No phone signal and only sketchy internet at the office. We’re west of Big Bend NP and view from the coach is great. Ernie’s fried catfish, chips and peas for dinner, sure tasted good !!
    Loving the bats that fly at dawn and dusk, seems to be 2 different types as there are large and smaller ones.    Leia mais

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    Castolon Area - Big Bend NP, TX

    23 de abril de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C

    After driving across dry dusty desert and through volcanic mountains the riverbanks of the Rio Grande are lush with green vegetation. Stopped for a photo and saw our first roadrunner, beep, beep !! Old cart was at the Castolon Visitor Centre.Leia mais

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    St Elena Canyon - Big Bend NP, TX

    23 de abril de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

    Amazing St Elena Canyon, Rio Grande river runs through it with Mexico on the south and Texas, USA 🇺🇸 on the north. We hiked just over a mile in blistering heat, high 90Fs, the 1500 feet cliffs towering above us. The river is very shallow and narrow, easy to walk across to Mexico.Leia mais

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    Rio Grande Village Campground - Big Bend

    24 de abril de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 35 °C

    Dry camping in the National Park, even with the generator running the air con we’re roasting as temperatures are in the high 90Fs. Next day the wind is gusting and it’s a cool 60F. Wildlife surrounds us, colourful vermillion flycatchers, vultures flying overhead and landing on the grass. A herd of javelinas appear out of the trees and snack on the grass by our coach. Bats and small birds of prey we think are hobbys perform aerobatics at dusk. We’ve even heard coyotes howling in the mornings.Leia mais

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    Boquillas Canyon - Big Bend NP

    25 de abril de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

    What a difference a day makes it’s a cool 60F and it’s blowing a hooley !! Once again we’re on the US side of the Rio Grande river with Mexico on the other. We can see where Mexicans have cross the river to try to trade with tourists, apparently it’s illegal to do so. As well as hiking to the mouth of the canyon we also were exfoliated on the way. The wind gusts were so strong they whipped up the sand along the river. We passed on going into Mexico at Bocquillas Crossing in a row boat, even though you can officially cross.Leia mais

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    U.S. Border Patrol - Texas

    27 de abril de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C

    Both on the way in and out of the Big Bend area we went through US Border Patrol Checkpoints, once they find out we’re British they want to see our passports and know when we arrived, what we’re doing and when we’re leaving the US.Leia mais

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