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International Cruise

This is my buddy standing in Mexico with his canoe in Boquillas Canyon, Big Bend National Park. For $10 he will paddle the fifty feet to the US then take you back to Mexico on his international cruise canoe.

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The Rules Is The Rules

Rio Grande Ranch State Park Texas = Looking From the US Across the Rio Grande into Mexico. If we cross the little river in the photo the fine is $5,000 for each of us. If they cross the little river in the photo the ACLU thinks they should receive $250,000 each to buy dry socks.

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Henry Clay

Meet Henry Clay, the beer drinking mayor of Lajitas, Texas. His favorite time of day is when a tourist stops by and gives him a beer.

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On The Road Again

Happy New Year! We’re on the road again for a new adventure to try our hand at snowbirding. We’re such gypsys we’ve never stayed long in one place very long. So, we’ll see how it works out. We left Broken Arrow on December 22nd, a day later than planned because of the freezing weather

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Big 2021 Trip Finished!

Well, after being on the road almost 4 months, just shy of 10,000 miles driven and six formal complaints from Stewart, we’re home. We had a trip of extremes this year. Stayed in several really nice RV parks and a couple of complete dogs. Temperatures ranged from 117 near Yosemite to 41 in Angel

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Northern New Mexico

Don’t know why getting a hair cut when you’re traveling is such an issue. At home, the first time I got a cut from my barber it was a good cut and very close to what I ask for. I was blaming ol’ cousin Norm for the bad luck because the first two awful

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Cooling Off

Bid the Larricks adios for the second time this trip and headed east toward Oklahoma, but it will take a while before we get there. Driving on I-40 east and pulling the fifth wheel we didn’t think we had enough fuel to reach Needles so we exited at a place called Sussex for fuel.

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Eastern Sierra Nevadas

Departed Tahoe in a thick blanket of smoke from the Tamarak fire, visibility in some places a few hundred yards, better in other places but very bad all the way past Fallon, NV. Our two planned routes, one a scenic small, windy road the other scenic and a better road had both been closed

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