January 29, 2019 The weather wasn’t cooperating very well with us so we pulled out the weather map and decided it was time to head North a bit. We had spent about 2 hours in San Antonio on a trip back in the 80’s so we thought a full day…
Winter Escape-Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Visiting the Border – 2019 52 week project #7
We stayed four nights of our trip at a little RV park (Americana The Birding Center RV Park) just north of Bentsen State Park so we would have easy access to the Butterfly Reserve and the park. The campgrounds actually had a small Birding area with trails and feeding stations…
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Winter Escape-La Lomita Mission, Visiting the Border 2019 52 week project #6
Mission Texas takes its name from this tiny Mission church near the Mexican border. The small park was deserted on the rainy morning that we visited, but books full of peoples prayers written in notebooks sat on the alters. Many of the prayers were for people who had passed or…
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Winter Escape-National Butterfly Reserve, Visiting the Border 2019 52 week project #5
The National Butterfly Reserve, a privately held conservation area dedicated to conserving butterflies and other native wildlife in southern Texas, was our next stop. If the wall is built the park will be cut in half, so we stopped in to see what all the fuss is about. This is…
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Winter Escape, Visiting the Border 2019 52 week project #4
“To save the entire environment: wilderness protection, proper use of parks, breakdown of Federal operation of the parks in favor of private interests, acquiring new park and wilderness land, unrestrained oil drilling and mining on land and offshore, etc. First on the list now is that all the wilderness areas…
