We started our main road trip for the year on April 14. We plan to visit 11 western states, with an emphasis on finding new plant genera, and then finish up the year canoeing in Minnesota. During the six months we’ll be gone, we will take two breaks for birding tours to Borneo (June) and […]
Tag: Lower Rio Grande Valley
Exile in the Lower Rio Grande Valley
When visiting the Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV), we often get a room in an extended stay facility rather than camp, for a break, and also because the cost is about the same, and air conditioning is nice given the high humidity and temperatures in the region. We stayed in Woodspring Suites in Pharr, which […]
2018 Wrap-up
Leaving Cape May, we headed west to Front Royal, VA, to repeat the drive we did last fall, down the Skyline Drive (through Shenandoah National Park) and the Blue Ridge Parkway, as far as Asheville, NC. The fall color was very inferior this year, with only a few decent areas, at the very highest elevations. […]
LRGV: a Reprise
We had a good time in the Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV), where we spent 4 days. There is no dispersed or public camping in the prime area so we stayed in an RV resort for 4 nights, which cost more than the studio apartment we rented when we were in the LRGV in December. […]
Butterflies!
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 […]
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