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 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…
 
 
1. Garner State Park.
 

 
 
2. What a hot road ! This one traveled from Ilinoi..! 😀
 

 
 
3. Across gentle hills making me thinking about some places of Lozère, South of France…
 

 
 
4. Small town of Camp Wood, quite picturesque…
 

 
 
5. Amistad Reservoir, an artificial lake North from Del Rio.
 

 
 
I made ​​a stop at Seminole Canyon, an important site for its petroglyphs. It’s a deep canyon carved in limestone and adjacent to the Rio Grande.
 
 
6. Going down to the canyon…
 

 
 
7. After a short ascent, entry under the overhang used as shelters by the indigenous Indians approx. 4,000 years ago.
 

 
 
8. Petroglyph 1: the winged man, probably a shaman…
 

 
 
9. Petroglyph 2 : men and animals
 

 
 
10. Petroglyph 3: a large centipede
 

 
 
11. 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…
 

 
 
12. Going up the canyon, spectacular view of the limestone hollowed and polished by the water…
 

 
 
13. Small flowers on my path, rare in this season…
 

 
 
My 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.
 
 
14. Entry in the Chihuahuan Desert.
 

 
 
15. Arid desolation…
 

 
 
16. From the Marathon campground…
 

 
 
17. Sunset on the mountains…
 

 
 
18. On the road to Alpine TX.
 

 
 
19. Immensity south of Alpine…
 

 
 
20. Endless straights … The longest to date for VivaLaVida was 73 miles..!
 

 
 
21. 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…
 

 
 
So 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… 😀