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Doing It On The Road: May 2010
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Doing It On The Road. Sunday, May 30, 2010. It seemed that all the turtles in Minneapolis had been quite busy this spring and as we left our campground Renita spotted a snapping turtle laying her clutch of eggs. It didn't seem like the best spot as it was next to the dump station and terribly exposed but it was her spot and so we stopped the rig and ran over to take pictures,(As if she was going anywhere). Of course South Dakota had to let us know that her winds were only sleeping and by the time we got ...
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Doing It On The Road: December 2009
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Doing It On The Road. Monday, December 28, 2009. Port Aransas and the Birding Center. Our daughter Jenny, had arrived from Minneapolis and we wanted to show her some of the Coastal Bend area. We packed a picnic lunch and headed to Port Aransas and Mustand Isand State Park. Our intent was to visit the jetty and then drive onto the beach at the state park. I threw in a couple of poles with some cut mullet but nothing picked them up and of course I lost both rigs in snags, but that wasn't unexpected. We...
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Doing It On The Road: Escapee Friends
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Doing It On The Road. Saturday, July 24, 2010. A few weeks ago we got an email from Mike and Loretta,(Mike and Loretta are fulltimers who have been on the road for ten years), saying they would be passing through Wyoming and wondering where we were at. So it was really nice when we heard their air horn and saw their mdt and fifth wheel out our side window. It didn't take long before we were heading up the lake, with our destination being Firehole and Chimmney Rock. The trip was nice and we chatted ab...
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Doing It On The Road: March 2010
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Doing It On The Road. Saturday, March 27, 2010. Spring Flowers at The Rockport Cemetery. When I think of cemeteries, I think of well cared lawns and tombstones. We visited one in Boston that was really old and filled with winged angels. I usually try to avoid them but Renita had been asking if we could go to the Rockport, Texas, cemetery and see the spring flowers. What a surprise it was! See the cemetery is quite simply filled with wild flowers, or at least seeded ones and they are everywhere! I could s...
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Doing It On The Road: The Window is Fixed
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Doing It On The Road. Tuesday, August 3, 2010. The Window is Fixed. Three weeks after a rock smashed our back window, the lady from DJ's Glass called and sad the glaziers were coming out to replace our broken back window. Soon their white van arrived and in no time at all the old window was out! In less then an hour they had the broken glass replaced with the new double pane and the window reinstalled in our fifth wheel. They made the job look easy but that's what professionals are supposed to do. The No...
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Doing It On The Road: The Farson Fish Beds and the Opalized Wood of Big Sandy
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Doing It On The Road. Sunday, August 1, 2010. The Farson Fish Beds and the Opalized Wood of Big Sandy. The dust was absent, for once. usually a trip down a road in the Red desert causes billowing clouds of fine white dust and sand and the dust seems to get in everywhere. The road we were on was surprisingly good gravel with only a short stretch of dirt. Still we would watch for a developing rain thunderstorm. Soon the fish fossils seemed to jump out at us and I took images of them. I was pretty happy...
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Doing It On The Road: Crossing the Unitas and Douglas Pass on Colorado 139, OH MY
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Doing It On The Road. Friday, August 6, 2010. Crossing the Unitas and Douglas Pass on Colorado 139, OH MY. It was time to go to Colorado and visit our friends George and Val. They have a hay ranch on Fruitland Mesa, near Crawford, Colorado and it looked like an easy drive with a mountain pass or two but no problem, right? After all the truckers atlas showed the route aa a truckers route and it had some squiggles on the map but still no problemo. Notice my second use of the word right. I wasn't quite as c...
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Doing It On The Road: January 2010
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Doing It On The Road. Friday, January 29, 2010. A Week at Winter Camp on the Coastal Bend. The past week flew by and I just realized we hadn't posted, so I will try to touch on the weeks activities. Fishing of course is a given,(and the black drum are biting), but we have also been working in the lapidary shop, wire wrapping, metal detecting, and of course eating at the ever present campground buffets. The menu was all you could eat biscuits and gravy, and there were egg casseroles and fruit so no one le...
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Doing It On The Road: November 2009
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Doing It On The Road. Monday, November 30, 2009. Red Fish on the South Jetty, Port Aransas Pass. I had already broken off eight rigs at two different places, typical for jetty fishing, when the red fish picked up my cut mullet. I saw the tapping on the pole and picked it up just as the red took off on a run! Passing the low spot I reached the next area of sheltered rocks and fished "Petes" rock. Its just a rock that my Watersedge friend Pete loves to fish and its the same spot where I caught a 38 inc...
