Alvina and Jenny
Beautiful night big Moon
Alvina riding Donkey--Good Beer
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Dinning out on South Padre Isl.
Happy New Year from Texas
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Christmas on South Padre Island
Saturday, December 19, 2009
South Padre Island
After a week in the Breeze Lake campground just out of Brownsville Texas, during which time Cayce arrived , we have decided to travel to South Padre Island in the Gulf of Mexico.
Jenny will be joining us on the 23rd so we will spend Xmas together. Both Cayce and Jen will be returning home New Years day . Merry Christmas to all
Cayce on the pier --good fishing here
Great beach with white sand Our campground behind Cayce
Hotels on the beach
70 degrees, white sand --righteous winter
Gulf of Mexico
Jenny will be joining us on the 23rd so we will spend Xmas together. Both Cayce and Jen will be returning home New Years day . Merry Christmas to all
Cayce on the pier --good fishing here
Great beach with white sand Our campground behind Cayce
Hotels on the beach
70 degrees, white sand --righteous winter
Gulf of Mexico
Monday, December 7, 2009
Texas and The Gulf Coast
Dec. 7th--We are currently in a RV park in Riviera Texas,a small town on the Gulf of Mexico. The temperature here is 68-74 degrees F.--very enjoyable. Later this week we are going to Brownsville and make a decision as to where we will spend Xmas. It will either be Brownsville or Corpus Christi as both have airports that Cayce and Jenny can fly into. We are leaning towards Brownsville as the city borders Mexico and day trips across the border would be interesting. Take good care everyone and will make more blog entrees as our journey progresses.
Our Campground--Riviera
Observation tower overlooking the Gulf
Pelicans in the gulf
Nice ride EH!
Sunset on the Gulf Coast
After the weeks rest and full of turkey we continued our journey to San Antonio and ultimately the Gulf coast. Traveling south through the high country we went from 6500 feet elevation down to 25 feet above sea level as we approached San Antonio. The mountainous region gives way to flat prairie with alluvial soil very similar to the Fraser Valley as you travel from Hope to Vancouver.
The Flatlands South Texas
A Great tree at rest stop
San Antonio Texas
Because of a approaching snowstorm and with the Thanksgiving holiday looming we decided to stop for a week in a small town called Comfort, about half-way to San Antonio, to escape the storm and the holiday traffic. Thanksgiving is huge in America arguably bigger than Xmas with millions of people taking to the roads to visit family and friends. A good time to get off the highway. Alvina cooked a small turkey to celebrate the holiday and we feasted as the storm dumped snow on El Paso and over the high country that we had just traveled through on our way to Comfort.
As we made our way over the Texas high country on route to San Antonio we were amazed by the quality of the highways in Texas--beautiful 4-lane highways straight as a die and in perfect condition with a speed limit of seventy-five mph. We were to follow this road 500 miles to San Antonio and there was not one curve on it that we had to slow down for.
The road runner in Las Cruses New Mexico
A rest stop in Southern New Mexico
The Rio Grande river seperating Texas and Mexico
The Highway in Northwest Texas
Our Campground--Riviera
Observation tower overlooking the Gulf
Pelicans in the gulf
Nice ride EH!
Sunset on the Gulf Coast
After the weeks rest and full of turkey we continued our journey to San Antonio and ultimately the Gulf coast. Traveling south through the high country we went from 6500 feet elevation down to 25 feet above sea level as we approached San Antonio. The mountainous region gives way to flat prairie with alluvial soil very similar to the Fraser Valley as you travel from Hope to Vancouver.
The Flatlands South Texas
A Great tree at rest stop
San Antonio Texas
Because of a approaching snowstorm and with the Thanksgiving holiday looming we decided to stop for a week in a small town called Comfort, about half-way to San Antonio, to escape the storm and the holiday traffic. Thanksgiving is huge in America arguably bigger than Xmas with millions of people taking to the roads to visit family and friends. A good time to get off the highway. Alvina cooked a small turkey to celebrate the holiday and we feasted as the storm dumped snow on El Paso and over the high country that we had just traveled through on our way to Comfort.
As we made our way over the Texas high country on route to San Antonio we were amazed by the quality of the highways in Texas--beautiful 4-lane highways straight as a die and in perfect condition with a speed limit of seventy-five mph. We were to follow this road 500 miles to San Antonio and there was not one curve on it that we had to slow down for.
The road runner in Las Cruses New Mexico
A rest stop in Southern New Mexico
The Rio Grande river seperating Texas and Mexico
The Highway in Northwest Texas
Saturday, December 5, 2009
The City Of Rocks State Park in New Mexico
Nov.23--To get to The City of Rocks we travelled to Demming New Mexico and headed north over 23 miles towards Silver city, on a 2-lane highway, over desert sand. Approaching the park entrance and cresting a hill the first view of the park could only be described as surreal. There in the middle of the desert were hundreds of large rocks which indeed resembled a large city.
The view that greeted us as we crested the hill--incredible!
It's like some medieval giant was playing chess with the rocks
The wind is constantly blowing here
The vertical rock pillars have shape and size rivaling those seen in Stone hedge. But,how did they get there? Geologists tell us that the formation was created by the eruption of a super volcano, some 1000 times greater than the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helen's, that occurred 35 million years ago.
The pictures do not do justice to the actual size of these formations
Monolithic structure
Millions of years of erosion formed these structures
There were over a hundred campsites in the park
The magma produced by the explosion moved as a hot turbulent cloud and traveled as far as 2oo kilometers before depositing the volcanic material on what is now known as the City Of Rocks. The rock formations that we see today were created by erosion of the magma caused by wind, freeze-thaw action and the effects of vegetation over millions of years.
The campsites in the park have fire pits and picnic tables nestled between the rocks or in caves
A petrified dinosaur?--Just kidding!
A beautiful view of the desert and the distant mesa
This Park was 60 miles out of our way and we were glad we took the time to see it--a must see if you are down this way.
The view that greeted us as we crested the hill--incredible!
It's like some medieval giant was playing chess with the rocks
The wind is constantly blowing here
The vertical rock pillars have shape and size rivaling those seen in Stone hedge. But,how did they get there? Geologists tell us that the formation was created by the eruption of a super volcano, some 1000 times greater than the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helen's, that occurred 35 million years ago.
The pictures do not do justice to the actual size of these formations
Monolithic structure
Millions of years of erosion formed these structures
There were over a hundred campsites in the park
The magma produced by the explosion moved as a hot turbulent cloud and traveled as far as 2oo kilometers before depositing the volcanic material on what is now known as the City Of Rocks. The rock formations that we see today were created by erosion of the magma caused by wind, freeze-thaw action and the effects of vegetation over millions of years. 
The campsites in the park have fire pits and picnic tables nestled between the rocks or in caves
A petrified dinosaur?--Just kidding!
A beautiful view of the desert and the distant mesa
This Park was 60 miles out of our way and we were glad we took the time to see it--a must see if you are down this way.
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