{"id":2456,"date":"2014-04-13T15:27:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T19:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2014-04-13T15:51:05","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T19:51:05","slug":"last-update-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/last-update-in-texas\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Last update in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I’m quite late relating the trip of VivaLaVida, I already post a new update…
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\nLeaving the Big Bend area, I went back quietly to the Northwest, taking the path of Southern California where I had to join Andrew for our trip to Baja.
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\nSo I went to the Guadaloupe Mountains, an interesting mountain range. However, I stopped several times on the road, this time to Watch a beautiful sunset on the Texas plains…
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\n1. Huge and rather dry pastures…
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\n2. Soft light at sunset…
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\n3. … on these endless plains…
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\n4. … that adorn some rocky hills to counter the monotony.
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\n5. Nice pics!
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\n6. Small remote ranch…
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\n7. Western landscape…
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\n8. Natural stairs in a canyon of Guadaloupe Mountains.
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\n9. Vegetal elegance…
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\n10. El Capitan (Guadaloupe Mountains) at sunset.
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\n11. Immensity…
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\nThe next morning, I hiked the Guadaloupe Mountains. Mountain range over 8000 feet, it has the distinction of having a depression on top, which holds water and creates an unexpected echosysem in the desert environment.
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\n12. A young \u00ab\u00a0mule deer\u00a0\u00bb at sunrise.
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\n13. Long hike uphill…
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\n14. … forest on the summit depression.
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\n15. Yes, they are bears there! \ud83d\ude00
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\n16. Mark at Pine Top summit.
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\n17. The next day, as I left the camp, a wave of polar air was coming. Retained by a ridge, it formed a curious fog seeming to overflow a saucepan. Beautiful but freezing!
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\nI then headed to White Sands, an erg of white sand.
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\n18. Good dirt road North West of Guadaloupe Mountains.
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\n19. Still immense arid plains…
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\n20. Distant view of the White Sands.
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\nOnce there, I had a little frustration because the site was closed. An army drone crashed there three days earlier. So I had to continue my journey toward New Mexico…
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\n21. Late afternoon on VivaLaVida’s road…
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\nThat’s it for Texas, for now at least. I then went through New Mexico to visit two sites that I will present in the next update.
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