2018 On The Road Again

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Gulf State Park, AL
March 28, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
Morning coffee by Shelby Lake, not tempted to have a dip !!
Walk across to the pier and beach. Beautiful white sands where loggerhead turtles nest May to September.
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Gulf State Park - Bike Ride
March 28, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
Brilliant ride on the trails in Gulf State Park. Highlight was the Great horned owl’s nest in the tree and the osprey on top of a pole. Huge campground with great full hookup sites. Nature centre was really interesting live snakes, alligators and lots of stuffed animals and birds.Read more
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Bon Secour - NWR, AL
March 30, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 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.Read more
Lesley HastingsSounds like reptile city!🐊🐍
3/31/18Reply
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Bella Terra Ducklings
March 30, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Look who just waddled past as I was sitting on the patio.
Our home for the week from the other side of the lake.
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Fort Morgan, AL
April 1, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 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.Read more
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Visiting Friends - Vinton, LA
April 8, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Back to where it all started in 2001!!!
We bought our first motorhome from Ernie & Pat and have stayed friends ever since. Good to spend time catching up with them and their lovely family. Excellent dinner of shrimp, sausage and chicken gumbo with rice and potato salad with pecan fudge brownies to follow.Read more
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Fishing for Catfish
April 12, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Fishing and catching good eating catfish at one of Ernie’s ponds.
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Crawfish Supper
April 13, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
3 pounds of spicy crawfish, peel your own then dip in garlic butter or mayochup, delicious with potatoes and corn. 😋
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Last night in Louisiana
April 16, 2018 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 17 °C
Excellent night out, pizza and beer at the Mellow Mushroom in Lake Charles with friends Brian,Tammy and Jacob. Cool place with a Herbie transformer outside !!
linda mcelroylooks like living the dream is working its magic. Looking great Carol xx
4/19/18Reply
TravelerThanks Linda, feeling good xx
4/19/18Reply
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La Fonda on Main - San Antonio, TX
April 18, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 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 ??Read more
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The River Walk - San Antonio, TX
April 18, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 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.Read more
TravelerDan and I stopped here on the way to AZ a couple of years ago. Fun place. We enjoyed Fredericksburg also. Stayed at Buckhorn Rv Resort a little north and west of San Antonio. It's right off I-10. Safe travels.
4/19/18Reply
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The Alamo-San Antonio, TX
April 19, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 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.Read more
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San Jose Mission -San Antonio, TX
April 19, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 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.Read more
Charles JohnstoneJust waiting for the Cowboys to come riding round the corner with guns blazing at any time. Love M&Dxxx.
4/23/18Reply
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Desert Drive, Hwy 90, TX
April 21, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
Lots of wilderness in southwest Texas, interesting cacti with hummingbirds feeding on the orange flowers. Not quick enough with the camera to capture the wild turkeys and javelinas feeding on the side of the road. Javelinas look like hogs and smell like skunks, apparently.Read more
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Travelers World Resort ? - Terlingua, TX
April 21, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 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.Read more
TravelerWe need to go to these places. Really like the "resort"!
4/26/18Reply
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Terlingua Ghost Town,TX
April 22, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Strange concoction of dwellings, some lived in some not, vehicles, some roadworthy some not and people, some locals but most tourists. Cemetery was interesting, With some graves dating back to the 1920s.Read more
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Castolon Area - Big Bend NP, TX
April 23, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 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.Read more
TravelerNever thought I would want to go to Big Bend NP. These pics changed my mind. Safe travels.
4/26/18Reply
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St Elena Canyon - Big Bend NP, TX
April 23, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 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.Read more
Lesley HastingsWhere's Donald gonna build his wall here then?
4/26/18Reply
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Homer Wilson Ranch - Big Bend NP, TX
April 23, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Scenery is spectacular, this area was volcanically active 29 million years ago. High desert plains with the occasional flowering cacti. Interestingly named features, such as Mule Ears Peak. Homer Wilson ranch was at the mouth of a canyon and was a sheep and goat ranch in the early 1920s.Read more
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Rio Grande Village Campground - Big Bend
April 24, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 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.Read more
Charles JohnstoneThe great adventure continues. We are well. Love M&Dxxx
4/30/18Reply
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Boquillas Canyon - Big Bend NP
April 25, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 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.Read more
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Lost Mine Trail - Big Bend NP
April 26, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C
We hiked part of the Lost Mine trail through forest to an overlook with spectacular views. Along the trail were agave plants, some of which had flowered on stalks much taller than Stew. Also saw deer and a huge squirrel.Read more
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Chisos Mountains - Big Bend NP
April 26, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
A day out in the Chisos Mountains, the only range completely in a National Park and the landscape is different, trees are on the mountain slopes and this is bear and mountain lion country, but we didn’t see either.Read more
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Nature Trail - Big Bend NP, Texas
April 26, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
A short trail from the campground through a swampy area and we climbed up to an overlook where we could see the Mexican town of Boquillas and along the Rio Grande dwellings with horses and goats in fields. Another superb cactus flower. Another hot day in the high 90Fs.Read more
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U.S. Border Patrol - Texas
April 27, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 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.Read more
TravelerWe went through a border crossing on I-10 in New Mexico the first time we went west. We're enjoying seeing your travels.
5/1/18Reply
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