Happy New Year! 2005. Seventy-five degrees. No reason to leave. But we left anyway. We’ve been here ten days so we decided to abandon the beach to go find some other place we don’t want to leave. The Rio Grande Valley. Farther south. Lower Latitude. 26.20. Guess we’re not going to make it any farther south than this. Not without going to Key West. We gave up seventy-five degrees…. for eighty.
Picked up a few more birds:
American avocet. One flock, all by themselves on a mud flat, way off down an uninhabited four wheel drive access only beach.
Common loon. A couple of them just hanging out in the bay.
Snow goose. Giant flock at the Aransas Wildlife Refuge.
Western sandpiper. Tiny cute little guy scurrying up and down the beach with a flock of sanderlings. He made the sanderlings look big.
Green Jays. A whole flock of green jays at a rest stop on the highway.
More yellow rumped warblers. Lots and lots of yellow rumped warblers. Flashing their yellow rumps at us.
For those of you who moan every time I mention birds, I want to say some people actually ask which birds we’ve seen. Dave Menough cares which birds we’ve seen.
And Skip. Skip has been following our motorhome adventures. He asked if I’d consider putting together a list of all the things you can do wrong while you’re on the road, so he could avoid all of the things we’ve already done wrong. Well here it is. My trip reports. And speaking of doing things wrong, another lesson learned. When you decide to give up your real estate, you give up the land-line and use your cellphone as your primary phone. When you do that, be careful. Be careful about the cellphone plan. If you talk as much as you do normally, but do it on the cellphone, it can get really expensive. Really expensive. Our cellphone provider had to love us for a month until we figured out what we were doing. We switched to a plan that lets us talk to our kids as much as we want without worrying about overage minutes.
Life on the road.
