Headin' North!

This is near Boquillas Canyon, on the eastern side of Big Bend National Park. In this photo, the U.S. is on the right side of the river and Mexico on the left. 

This is at the mouth of Boquillas Canyon. Obviously, I'm standing on the U.S. side and Mexico is on the right side of the river. 

A few Mexican Burros grazing near the river. 

I don't know what kind of cactus this is, but I'm pretty sure the flower is safe from any intruders!

I'm getting a later start than I had planned, but I'm finally heading north to escape the heat. As of now, I'm in the Texas panhandle, visiting with family. My brother lives here but is in poor health so my sister, who normally lives in Georgia, is here helping to take care of him. I've been here a little over a week and plan to stay another 5 or 6 days, but will continue my journey north soon.

I'm not certain exactly where I'm headed. From here, I'm going to head up thru Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota. Soon after that, I'll have to decide if I'm going to turn left and go into Montana or turn right and head towards Minnesota and Wisconsin. I guess I'll play-it-by-ear, as they say. It should be a fun adventure, regardless of where I end up.

I haven't taken any pictures recently, so I've looked back through my recent trips and decided to share a few more pictures of Big Bend National Park, in Texas. Hope you enjoy them.

Until next time!

Can you hear me now?

Northern end of a rainbow near Medina, Texas.

Southern end of the same rainbow. On the right side of the photo, there are traces of a double rainbow that was trying to form. 

I'm back! For the last five weeks, I've been in Medina, Texas, (just south of Kerrville) an area known as the "no phone zone"! I don't know about other phone services, but in that area, my Verizon phone was not much more than a paper weight. I couldn't place nor receive calls in my trailer. To use my phone, I'd have to go outside and sit in a lawn chair. And often times, I'd have to relocate my chair several times during the call once the signal starting getting even weaker. Trying to text message or email was even more difficult and trying to get online was practically impossible.

Since I updated my blog only once during that time, I'm going to have to play catch-up for awhile. You can expect to see pictures of Big Bend and also a few of the Medina area for the next several posts. For this one, I decided to post some pictures of a rainbow that I saw near Medina. In fact, if you'll look closely at the right side of the picture of the southern end of the rainbow, you can see traces of a double rainbow that was trying to form but just couldn't quite make it.

Until next time!