In the last post, I described the first half of our trip to the Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV). We spent another 9 days in the field before returning to El Paso for New Years. Fortunately, the weather improved somewhat, and we had many more opportunities to photograph butterflies than in the first half of […]
South Texas Interlude
It was not easy, but we are now Texans. Most people never have to worry about defining their state of residence, as it is obvious from their job and/or housing location, but when living in an RV, it is not so straightforward. We wanted the transition to be very clear so that our new truck […]
Natural History Quests
My first natural history “quest”, one pursued by many others as well, was to see 700 species of birds in the continental U. S. and Canada (hereafter, “North America”, even though properly that should also include Mexico through the Panama isthmus). There are about 670 bird species that breed in North America, and a few […]
Financial Strategy
The two questions I received most frequently, after people found out I was retiring, were “What are you going to do with yourself?” and “How did you decide you had enough money to retire?” The former question is essentially the focus of this blog in general, but in today’s post I will specifically address the […]
Trials and Tribulations
Our first big step in the retirement transition was turning our current pickup camper over to an RV dealer, in mid-July, to be sold on commission. We spent an exhausting weekend unpacking it and cleaning the interior and exterior of the camper and the truck as they had never been cleaned before. Pickup campers can […]
Preparations and Plans
There are an estimated 200,000 people in the U.S. who live full-time in a camper, but very few live in something as small as a pickup camper. I’d guess the number is in the hundreds. There are probably two main issues: living space and storage space. The former can be addressed by spending as much […]
A New Blog: Background
Eileen and I have written a Christmas letter each of the 30 years we have been married. But with my retirement on Sept. 9, and our plans for nomadic travel across North America, quite a few people have suggested more frequent reporting. Hence this foray, our first, into blogging. Although some blogs involve essentially daily […]
Nomadic Naturalists 