Category: Texas
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A Glimpse of South Texas – Riviera, TX
While Steve was busy ticking items off his long list of winter maintenance for Betsy, I continued to “terrorize the local birds”, as he likes to describe it. When your home base is at Riviera, Texas, fishing and birding are pretty much the order of the day. If those activities aren’t your cup of tea, you…
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A big Texas landmark – Kingsville, TX
They say everything in Texas is big, and one of the things the state is known for is its super-sized ranches. The size of the state itself lends it perfectly to the industry of raising cattle. The massive King Ranch in southern Texas – covering more area than the state of Rhode Island, and with more acreage than Dallas, Houston…
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Winter Maintenance for Betsy – Riviera, TX
[Steve wrote this post, Mona Liza gets the day off!] Like many full-time RV’ers running around the country, we tend to slow down and “stay put” in a particular area during the coldest winter months. We have found it’s the best time for us to complete the many little maintenance items we’ve added to our list…
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Final Days on the Gulf – Port Aransas, TX
Along the Texas Coast are barrier islands running parallel to the mainland. The longest barrier island is Mustang Island, where Port Aransas occupies 8 miles of its 18 mile length. We spent a month there with Gulf Waters RV Resort as our home base, then three days just up the road at Mustang Island State Park.
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Two Birders of a Feather – Port Aransas, TX
Two deep-south states – Texas and Florida – are known for their amazing assemblage of birds and other animals. The “Sister States in Birds”, as they are sometimes called, share many of the same birds – even going so far as to both claim the Northern Mockingbird as their state bird. Texas gets more western birds, while…
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Party time at the Gulf – Port Aransas, TX
We had hoped that being in southern Texas, and parking close to the Gulf of Mexico would allow us to enjoy some reasonably warm weather this winter. From the day we arrived here at Port Aransas (Dec. 15), we’ve been able to count on one hand the number of days that we haven’t had to bundle up in…
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Betsy gets a rest in Houston while we fly away
In my last post, I alluded to the fact that while at Galveston Island we were busy preparing for an overseas trip. By the time you read this Steve and I will be in the Philippines. For the next two weeks we’ll be in my hometown of Moalboal on Cebu visiting my 96-year-old mom and the rest of the…
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A reunion with good friends at Galveston Island, TX
Winter weather arrived too early to suit us this year, impacting 43 states – including Texas, which got hit hard. The surge of cold air pushed all the way down to the gulf coast and then moved east. At least we weren’t in Buffalo!
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Hello East Texas! – Gladewater and Onalaska
Just like the migratory White Pelicans that have been following us (or have we been following them?), we’re getting close to our wintering grounds for this year in the Lone Star state of Texas.
