Category: 2025 Snowbird Trip
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2025 Snowbird Trip Recap
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12/19/2024 – 02/13/2025 Southbound # Dates Campsite City State Type 2 12/19/24 Air Capital RV Park Wichita Kansas RV Park 3 12/20/24 Winstar World Resort Thackerville Oklahoma RV Park 4 12/21/24 Dinosaur Valley RV Park Glen Rose Texas RV Park 5 12/22/24 Leander/ NW Austin KOA Leander Texas KOA 6 12/23/24 Patriot RV Park Cuero…
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Snowbirds Return to…Snow???
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An upcoming appointment back home forced these snowbirds to return north early this year. A series of February winter storms made it quite challenging. We planned our trip home from South Padre Island knowing we would probably not be able to avoid all the storms – ice in the south and snow in the north,…
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Birding Adventures
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Wild Red-crowned Parrots have migrated from Mexico to the Rio Grande Valley between Brownsville and McAllen. We rode to Brownsville with Paul and Roxann do some shopping and stopped at the Joe and Tony Oliveira Park at sunset. Hundreds of very talkative parrots arrive from all directions to roost in the park trees each night.…
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SPI Indoor Kite Fest
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A couple of years ago, Lisa and I rode our bikes down to the north end of South Padre Island for their annual kite fest held out near the Laguna Madre bay. This year we attended our first indoor kite flying festival at the island’s convention center. Yes, you read that right — indoor. Indoor…
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A Night at the End of the Road
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Lisa and I have made several day-trips to the “end of the road” during our past stays on South Padre Island, but this year we decided to do something different and spend the night there. We had heard once that it was a great place to get away from city lights to do a little…
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USS John F. Kennedy
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“Any of you boys seen an aircraft carrier around here?” Maverick’s movie line came to mind as we tried to figure out when to see the biggest ship we’d probably ever witness coming through the Brownsville Ship Channel, which starts at the southern tip of SPI. The rumor mills were alive and well at Isla…
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Flea Market and Turtle Release Weekend
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What’s this? Tony posting again? What’s happened to Lisa? I assure you that Lisa is just fine and you’ll hear from her again in the near future. It’s just that I have a bit more time on my hands because…wait for it…I’m a fulltime retiree again. I had already renewed my contract with Principal far…
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Polar Vortex in Southern Texas?
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We were not able to escape winter completely this year, even in southern Texas. While we did avoid the snow that marched across Texas and the other gulf states, we had several fairly miserable days as far as the weather goes with lows in the 30s, highs in the 50s, and wind gusts as high…
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De Terra Ad Astra
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After several delays due to weather, Lisa and I finally were able to witness a Space X launch of Starship and the spectacular catch of the Super Heavy Booster it rode atop of on Starship Flight 7. January 16, 2025 was a beautiful, cloudless day that managed to find its way into an otherwise wet…
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Happy New Year from South Padre Island
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We arrived shortly after official check-in time on Jan. 1 to our winter destination—South Padre Island. So far it has been a cold couple of weeks, but we see neat things on the beach, get plenty of exercise and fresh air and are hopeful to see a Space X launch soon. Last April, we got…