Quick stop at Balmorhea state park to swim. A gathering of more humans in one place than the Tortuga tends to like, but it was a lovely spot and an incredible display of the aquifer’s power. Watching fish swim, kids jumping off the high dive, and yes, scuba divers training in the 30 ft[…]
I know I have said it before and I will say it again. It takes almost forever to get across the Republic of Texas. But that is what the Tortuga has to do to find some tall pines in the cool air of the Rockies. The plan is to go swimming at Balmorhea State Park[…]
More than two days of travel at an average speed of 51 miles an hour, but we are here. The Tortuga was greeted with 101-degree temperatures as we rolled into Douglas, Arizona. Why Douglas? Douglas sits right on the Arizona/Mexico border, no more than 50 miles away from New Mexico. If you look on the map[…]
Tortuga has left the beach. All first days are HECTIC! The endless questions of what you have forgotten or didn’t even think of. To leave these anxieties behind, the Tortuga started a day earlier than planned. The idea was simple, to shorten the milage on the first few days and to shake out those issue[…]