Victor's Meanderings

WINTERING  IN TEXAS  Huh? M ost people from my home state of Colorado and my new base camp in Montana wouldn't necessarily think of Texas as a place to visit in the winter to escape the cold. And Texas can have its cold days too when Canadian fronts blow south. This February and March, I did experience some very mild weather as I visited West Texas. I am beginning to think of myself as a piasano. It's a Spanish nickname for “greater roadrunner” but literally means countryman or peasant. Specifically, I visited Ft. Davis, Big Bend National Park and North St. Padre National Seashore Corpus Christi and Indianola so far. I took hikes in all these places wearing shorts and a t-shirt most days. It doesn't get much more pleasant than sitting in a lawn chair, reading a book, listening to the gulls and crash of the waves all the while coloring up the winter white pasty skin. I spent about three months in Southern New Mexico as I have written about earlier, namely in and