A Quick Trip to California

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February 5th 2010

Published: February 8th 2010

Our second leg of the trip began leaving New Orleans. Our plan was to spend ten days in Joshua Tree National Park with one or both of our sons. We had ten days to get to Joshua Tree; enough time to enjoy a few special places along the way. We had a few more thoughts about the Big Easy and Louisiana in general as we left the city. Our first visit there was the winter after Katrina, four years a... Read Full Entry

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Lynn & Jon Glase

Wondering Naturalists

Jon and Lynn are two sixty-something, retired, PhD ecologists seeking the wisdom from the natural world that can only come from first-hand experience with things and events. Our current arrangement is to keep a house as a home-base near Ithaca New York, where we have lived for the past 35+ years, spend summers in our trailer around New England (where Lynn's extended family resides), return to Ithaca for the fall and early winter, and depart for warmer climes after the Christmas-New Years holidays. We travel with Moxie, a Bichon Frise, in an 28 ft. Airstream trailer pulled by a Ford F-250 dies... full info

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San Solomon Cienega

The motivation for creating the ceinega was to help protect several species of small mosquito fish (Gambusia).

Spring-fed Swimming Pool

This photo of the swimming pool shows only the center of it and does not include two wings that may be at least 75 ft. each. The air was too cool for people but lesser scaup, pied-billed grebe, and ruddy ducks were having a great time.

Pavillions

Most of the campsites had little adobe-styled pavilion built by the CCC’s in the 1930s.

Bath House

Though built in the 1930's, the structures such as the bath house were still in excellent condition.

Flow from spring

Spring flow averages 1.0 million gallons per hour. It flows into nearby Balmorhea Lake.

2Mackeral sky over Balmorhea State Park

The following day was beautiful, but it rained during our first day in Tucson.

Texas Secondary Road

Western secondary roads are usually straight and flat. Generally, the speed limit is 75 mph, although we seldom exceeded 65 mph.

New Mexico Welcome Center

New Mexico, "Land of enchantment"!

Border Patrol Checkpoint

One wonders how effective checkpoints setup at known locations are at catching "illegals"? They certainly are effective at creating a traffic jam!

Continental Divide

We were surprised to find the continental divide in the middle of a very flat section of desert!

Chiracauha Mountains

Approaching the Arizona Border on I-10

Welcome to Arizona

Note the wind mill in distance. These devices are still used to pump water for livestock.

Cactus Country RV Resort

A great, isolated park to the south and east of the city. Near a large air force base and raiiload line, it can be a bit noisy.

Harris Hawk

Last year we saw a family group of three Harris Hawks at Sweet Water and were delighted to find that they were still there. One of the birds followed us around perhaps eyeing Moxie as an entre.

Bufflehead, Ruddy Duck, and a Widgeon

Can you identify them?

American Widgeons and Coot

About the only expected species of duck we did not see at Sweet Water this day was Cinamon Teal.

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