VivaLaVida!

A journey to meet the planet and its inhabitants...

Big Bend National Park (2)

Waiting on the laundry to finish, here is an update posted from La Paz, Baja california. 😀     We continue the River Road driven by VivaLaVida in Big Bend NP.     1. Clouds are coming…       2. Survival…       3. Mountains in Mexico…  Read More…

Big Bend National Park (1) : Rio Grande river

I just have one hour before to meet Andrew to go boondocking in the Anza Borrego Desert tonight and crossing the Mexican border tomorrow.   This update is entirely devoted to Big Bend National Park which borders with Mexico 137 miles along the Rio Grande.     1. Arrival atRead More…

Still in Texas…

Here a new update, a little closer to the last one because I will normally leave Sunday for four weeks in Baja California where I likely won’t have connection possibilities. It will therefore be a small “black out” on the blog, you will not mind me… 😉 Continuing my wayRead More…

Central Texas…

Firstly, some of you may have noticed that a new page appeared in the main menu, which shows the way of Vivalavida since mid December. It’s along this line that you can find the sites of my pictures images. This line represents the path of Vivalavida but doesn’t include mountainRead More…

Texan coast and some urban…

I’m back after ten days of no man’s land in the extreme southwestern Texas and I find a Wifi to write this small update (I have a little delay, sorry… 🙂     After the episode of mosquitoes, I continued my journey on the coast of the Gulf of MexicoRead More…

Mississippi delta

After visiting the nice town of New Orléans, I spent a couple of days in the Mississippi delta, a huge wet zone and totaly flat. VivaLaVida sometimes slept on the beach it-self and I could observe many birds…     1. A nice campsite, isn’t it?       2.Read More…

Eventful way to New Orleans

My definitive papers there, I could set sail “for real”, unusual feeling of freedom ..!:-D   So I took the road to Alabama where some beautiful public forests worth a short stop on the way to Louisiana and Texas. I leaved Buford late, so I was caught in Atlanta traficRead More…

Way back from Florida (add)

In my last post, I forgot to show you pictures of Phenix, a small town in Alabama that was built along a river right next to the only rapids around. The river “falls” of about 25 feets on three or four hundred yards. This enabled the construction of mills, particularlyRead More…

Way back from Florida

After a few days on the Gulf of Mexico, I received the long-awaited message: my definitive papers arrived!   So I left the ocean for heading up to Atlanta, not without taking small roads with few detours. I then wiped the cold wave that made twenty deaths in North America,Read More…

Florida

I left you on the Atlantic shore of Georgia. Going to visit friends on the Gulf of Mexico in Florida, I cuted through the land and joined Florida, stopping at two State parks preserving the forest swamps. The weather was not in the game and since I haven’t received theRead More…