At 10:15 PM 2/27/2004 -0600, wrote: >You guys landlocked in ice and snow may want to consider a winter or >spring vacation in the balmy south. > >I just led a trip to Choke Canyon State Park where we paddled in our shirt >sleeves on Saturday and in light jackets on Sunday. We also saw 60 >species of birds and had deer, turkeys, and javalina in our camp. > >And I do this trip every year the third weekend in Feb. We have already >had a few northerners join us. We have winter from January to the middle >of February in the Houston area. Trees are leafing out and >blooming. Spring flowers are in bloom. Choke Canyon is about the same or >slightly warmer and a LOT dryer than Houston. I have never had rain on >this trip in 10 years of going. A few years ago several of us northerners came down to southern Florida for three days of paddling in the Florida keys. The meeting of PaddleWisers was graciously hosted by Sandy who planned the paddling trip and provide accommodations for a few of us. Since then I've taken winter trips a couple of other times to Florida and would consider doing another one in South Texas. I know that there are at least a couple of other Paddlewise regulars from that area and if "someone" could coordinate a winter paddling trip next year I'm sure that there might be a few northerners that might conisder making plans to go. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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