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Here and There//Texas/New Mexico: February 2012
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Here and There/ Texas/New Mexico. Snakebites, tumbleweeds and pumping units. rambling through Texas. Sunday, February 12, 2012. The Long, Winding Path to Kermit Sandhills. Kermit sandhills is transformed. There are now picnic tables with covers, full RV hook-ups, and a number of buildings. Flags are required for ATV riders! Or call Jimmy's Liquor, they are still the owner/operators (number below). 432) 586-9282. Tony or Steven. Photo from Duneguide.com. Said the clerk. "Nobody rides out there after t...
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Here and There//Texas/New Mexico: March 2012
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Here and There/ Texas/New Mexico. Snakebites, tumbleweeds and pumping units. rambling through Texas. Saturday, March 17, 2012. Three Adventures, One Day. The events detailed in this blog occurred on 1/15/2012. Over three months has passed since I left you, dear readers, hanging at the end of Installment 1 of The Return of the Cessna. Stay tuned - there are two more. Before the Wright Brothers? I'll take my motorcycle! Now all legal, licensed, and insured, but with almost no riding skills to speak of exce...
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Here and There//Texas/New Mexico: January 2012
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Here and There/ Texas/New Mexico. Snakebites, tumbleweeds and pumping units. rambling through Texas. Monday, January 30, 2012. At a track day near Deming, NM. Only five hours from Midland? So last Friday after work, I tossed some clothes into a bag along with my motorcycle helmet, my "all-purpose" mountain biking gloves (turns out they are equally useful for mt biking, dirt biking, and now car racing). I didn't have the spare wheels and tires Don recommended I get (! 65 mph at night. Ouch! Arroyo Seco Ra...
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Here and There//Texas/New Mexico: November 2011
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Here and There/ Texas/New Mexico. Snakebites, tumbleweeds and pumping units. rambling through Texas. Monday, November 14, 2011. Just another (above-the) Valley Sunday. Guadalupe Peak and El Capitan, Texas. Wider shot showing the lenticular clouds developed over the Guads. Passing over the escarpment. Dell City bolson / salt flats. In the down-dropped block west of the Guads and Broke-off Mountains. Volcanoes near Dell City, TX. Hueco Tanks - State Park, but is it accessible? We continue west over the Hue...
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Here and There//Texas/New Mexico: December 2012
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Here and There/ Texas/New Mexico. Snakebites, tumbleweeds and pumping units. rambling through Texas. Sunday, December 02, 2012. I'm way behind on my blogging. But Debi has done some catch-up today, so you can get an idea of what we've been up to this fall:. In Santa Fe, NM). Debi also blogged about Lake Amistad. Although her blog is heavy on photos and light on text. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Blogs I Probably Read. Allegan County Michigan Wild Orchids and More. A is for Animals.
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Here and There//Texas/New Mexico: July 2011
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Here and There/ Texas/New Mexico. Snakebites, tumbleweeds and pumping units. rambling through Texas. Tuesday, July 19, 2011. Looking for Spring Creek Marina. The little engine that could - barely. I was struck by the similarities between boating and flying - it's VFR. No one is in control, you look our for yourself. Everyone got a chance to drive, or at least steer:. Mary steering the boat. The "slow" Honda (blue one). Debi does her pre-flight. or at least watches Josh do it. Mary hangs out in a hangar.
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Here and There//Texas/New Mexico: October 2011
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Here and There/ Texas/New Mexico. Snakebites, tumbleweeds and pumping units. rambling through Texas. Saturday, October 29, 2011. Never mind I stayed up until 2:30 am looking at planes for sale on trade-a-plane.com. Never mind I had to get up at 7:30. Ben arrived at 8 am and we tossed a few things in the Tacoma and headed south. Nice bike ride/motorcycle territory. We made it into Iraan, when I pulled out the sketch maps. Whoops, we went past our junction about three miles back. Close-up of a rock! Back t...
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Here and There//Texas/New Mexico: August 2012
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Here and There/ Texas/New Mexico. Snakebites, tumbleweeds and pumping units. rambling through Texas. Sunday, August 19, 2012. A few weekends ago, we decided to go on a trip with our friends Erika and Simon, and their baby Alejandra. We discussed renting a house on Lake Nasworthy, near San Angelo, TX, about two hours east of Midland. But then Simon found info online about renting houseboats on Lake Amistad. We decided that would be more fun. Lake Amistad is about 25' below "full" level; volumetrically, it...
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Here and There//Texas/New Mexico: Cedar Lake - Lamesa - 11,000 MSL
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Here and There/ Texas/New Mexico. Snakebites, tumbleweeds and pumping units. rambling through Texas. Wednesday, March 12, 2014. Cedar Lake - Lamesa - 11,000 MSL. Cedar Lake from around 11,000' (8,000' above the ground). Cedar Lake. Note the islands and the drill pads for wells. Drainage into Cedar Lake. Photographic "proof" of my altitude. Irspeed), look for a place to land straight ahead or with a slight turn into the wind ( B. Est place to land), and then pull out the C. Frac pond north of Odessa, TX.
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Here and There//Texas/New Mexico: Houseboating Lake Amistad
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Here and There/ Texas/New Mexico. Snakebites, tumbleweeds and pumping units. rambling through Texas. Sunday, August 19, 2012. A few weekends ago, we decided to go on a trip with our friends Erika and Simon, and their baby Alejandra. We discussed renting a house on Lake Nasworthy, near San Angelo, TX, about two hours east of Midland. But then Simon found info online about renting houseboats on Lake Amistad. We decided that would be more fun. Lake Amistad is about 25' below "full" level; volumetrically, it...