{"id":2083,"date":"2014-02-13T11:34:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T15:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2014-02-13T11:34:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T15:34:26","slug":"still-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/still-in-texas\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Still in Texas…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 \u00ab\u00a0black out\u00a0\u00bb on the blog, you will not mind me… \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n

Continuing my way westward, I made a quick stop for a night in the beautiful Garner State Park, on the banks of a beautiful river. it was cold, 24 in the morning, but the atmosphere was quiet in this desert period…
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\n1. Garner State Park.
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\n2. What a hot road ! This one traveled from Ilinoi..! \ud83d\ude00
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\n3. Across gentle hills making me thinking about some places of Loz\u00e8re, South of France…
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\n4. Small town of Camp Wood, quite picturesque…
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\n5. Amistad Reservoir, an artificial lake North from Del Rio.
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\nI made \u200b\u200ba stop at Seminole Canyon, an important site for its petroglyphs. It’s a deep canyon carved in limestone and adjacent to the Rio Grande.
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\n6. Going down to the canyon…
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\n7. After a short ascent, entry under the overhang used as shelters by the indigenous Indians approx. 4,000 years ago.
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\n8. Petroglyph 1: the winged man, probably a shaman…
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\n9. Petroglyph 2 : men and animals
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\n10. Petroglyph 3: a large centipede
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\n11. Petroglyph 4 : this one, which cannot really know what it represents, is exceptional because only discovered on this site. It has no known equivalent to date…
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\n12. Going up the canyon, spectacular view of the limestone hollowed and polished by the water…
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\n13. Small flowers on my path, rare in this season…
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\nMy route continued west till Marathon TX where I received my folding kayak, a small wonder White Water approved. I’ve also had good intestinal haywire that stoped me three days in the small camping… I then veered south to go to the Big Bend area, which borders Mexico.
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\n14. Entry in the Chihuahuan Desert.
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\n15. Arid desolation…
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\n16. From the Marathon campground…
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\n17. Sunset on the mountains…
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\n18. On the road to Alpine TX.
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\n19. Immensity south of Alpine…
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\n20. Endless straights … The longest to date for VivaLaVida was 73 miles..!
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\n21. 78F that day. But the amplitudes are terrible on the continental shelf where no mass of water mitigates. I had several times high seventies and 36F at the best of the day two days later, with good frosts at nigh, even an exceptional 19F for this region…
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\nSo much for this update. The following will take you to Big Bend National Park, where I spent a week discovering some places where only one vehicle as VivaLaVida could take me… \ud83d\ude00
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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 \u00ab\u00a0black out\u00a0\u00bb on the blog, you will not mind me… \ud83d\ude09 Continuing my wayRead More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[193,194,195,196,995],"class_list":["post-2083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-texas-en","tag-desert-en","tag-garner-en","tag-marathon-en","tag-seminole-canyon-en","tag-texas-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}