Places Visited, on Three Continents
PART THREE: NORTH AMERICA
PAGE SEVEN: U.S. State of TEXAS
College Station, Texas, is where I learned English as a 12-year old immigrant. Six years later, after living Galveston and Houston, in Texas, Suphur in Louisian, and the Los Angeles suburbs therafter, I wound up back in Texas, San Antonio this time, to transition into 4 years of military. So Texas is in my history, and the memories are good.
In 2010, the first days of Spring, a job-interview trip to Carlsbad, New Mexico, landed me in El Paso, Texas, and my rental car brought me past Guadalupe Mountains National Park, on the New Mexico border.
Although my time was limited, I was able to take two short hikes in this national park: about 3 hours in Dog Canyon and almost 2 hours in McKittrick Canyon.
It is now Fall, 2010. On a warm November morning I drove exactly 50 miles from my Carlsbad, New Mexico, home and parked at the McKittrick Canyon entry point. Just over 8 hours later I came out again, dragging. I had been to "the Notch." The scenery, especially with fall's best colors, was simply spectacular! At the end of these pages I added several more about my return to this canyon 8 days later. I just wanted to go back and see what lay beyond the Notch.
It is almost a month later. December 2010, and I took a long walk along the Tejas Trail from Dog Canyon up to see the view from Lost Peak. This walk caused me to gain about 1,500 feet (about 500 meters) in elevation and taxed my ability to do this sort of thing. But of course I will do more of it because it is both fun and a challenge.
Speaking of the Permian in southern New Mexico and west Texas, I have several pages on what it is and when it was.
I made four 10 to 12 minute movies: "Gifts from the Permian" (a musically accompanied series of four slide shows of the best I have seen, so far, in southern New Mexico and west Texas).
The Gypsum Plain does not respect the Texas-New Mexico state line, so although the Parks Ranch Caves visited on these pages are in New Mexico, the pages are listed here as well.
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