Where to stay for the Winter
Hello all, my wife and I have lived in our 5th wheel now for a year and my job is converting so I can go full time remote. In the next few months is when we will be looking to start on the road ful...
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Oh geez, I was writing this book while you posted. :)
I can't find it but I have pictures of a dust storm in socal while sitting between the Cargo Muchacho mountains and the imperial dunes. It was so bad that it had not just dust but dirt flying by in waves. When you consider that it's sitting between these two large masses which form a shoot and depending on were the wind comes from it's not surprising if it makes the wind speed up even more. The wind seems to be out of the west nw so you can pretty much be pointed into it and still have the panels to the South. The wind can be mild and last for a few hours or a few days or it can last for 2 days and rock and roll.
Other than that I usually step outside in my jps with a coffee and enjoy a blue sky warm sun and 70 degrees. Last winter was very mild with no real wind storms and almost no rain. The year before had two that weren't dirt carriers but very gusting. When these storms happen it can still be 70 degrees and sunny. The so I may not be real bright because of the Dust but there are still no clouds up there.
From my experience it's never been as bad in the Q but it does get windy. Just like any other place if you go to the Q or Yuma or the river or Phoenix and only stay a week or two or even a month you may not experience the best or worst. You are in the desert so it is dusty. It's not grass or fields where everything is rooted in and covering the dirt. Most of the time you can have the windows open if it's windy and Dusty we close the windows and run the air conditioner.
There really aren't any bugs there because it's too dry. There is a lot of life in the ground to escape the heat. I have heard Of rattlesnakes twice. A small one bit a lady's dog that was sitting under her lawn chair by a campfire one night and another guy in SoCal said that he'd seen one in the brush when he was walking. I have climbed the 2000 foot mountains out there and been in washes and I've never run into a rattlesnake. Some will say that you won't see rattlesnakes in the winter but that's not true of all of the species some of them don't hibernate they sort of semi hibernate.
Because it's desert you really don't have many tall trees so you're very few obstacles over head to worry about. Tall trees don't do well in Wind either so you see a lot more scrub type stuff out there. It seldom rains but when it does it must rain very hard because it creates huge washers and tears stuff up. The rainy season is not during the winter.
I've spent a good amount of winter time in Texas but not the Rio Grande Valley. After 6 years of looking at this stuff on the internet I notice that the Rio Grande Valley has years when people say the weather was fantastic and there's times when they say it's not so good. So it's just like the desert or Florida. I could go to the Rio Grande Valley for a week or two or month and say that it rained a lot. Or if I went all season long for a few years I'd get a better idea of what the weather is really like by seeing a bigger picture.
You can probably find nice RV parks around the Houston Livingstone College Station but to me it's not a tourist type feel. It can get a slight dust of snow and it can get ice storms covering your car but the ground never freezes. I've also been there in the winter when it was nice all the time and the most I ever put on was a light jacket and even then it was sunny. If they do get an ice storm everyone down there thinks the world's coming to an end and they all storm Walmart and buy out all the water and batteries. We just look out the windowand laugh.
I traveled back and forth to Florida but not spent a lot of time in the gulf states. When I've stayed for a few days in Louisiana and Mississippi I get noseeum bites. Noseeum are common to swampy areas and bayous. There something about the eggs being layed in the mangroves and the tide being part of the life cycle. From what people tell me the noseeum are like mosquitoes in the respect that they will bite some people and not others. The difference with the 2 is that the mosquito is penetrating your skin with a stinger the noseam Burrows under your skin and is alive in there. Depending on the part of the country they call him noseam gnats stingers Midge. They form welts and itching that can be so bad that you will wake up grinding your legs or scratching. They are also like mosquitoes as far as when they're worse. Mosquitoes are often out in the early evening if you avoid them then and then come out later they'll be okay. Noseeums like the shade and nighttime so once the sun gets real hot during the day there's usually not a problem. They can be very bad in the grass even when the sun is out because that's where they're taking shelter out of the Sun.
I have been to North Central Florida during the winter and not had any problem with them at all. There's probably plenty of Inland Florida that has no problem but I would also say that it could be different in the summer.
I spent 8 days at malaquite campground right on the golf out on Padre Island. A lot of things started to rust and the exterior hardware was corroding, the wheels on my year old truck we're starting to rust. It's usually Breezy and sunny but the air is very harsh because of the salt.
So there are some characteristics of each area that don't change but a person could spend the winter in one area and think that it's terrible because of the weather that year. So we have to suffer through all this and find our favorite places.
I can't find it but I have pictures of a dust storm in socal while sitting between the Cargo Muchacho mountains and the imperial dunes. It was so bad that it had not just dust but dirt flying by in waves. When you consider that it's sitting between these two large masses which form a shoot and depending on were the wind comes from it's not surprising if it makes the wind speed up even more. The wind seems to be out of the west nw so you can pretty much be pointed into it and still have the panels to the South. The wind can be mild and last for a few hours or a few days or it can last for 2 days and rock and roll.
Other than that I usually step outside in my jps with a coffee and enjoy a blue sky warm sun and 70 degrees. Last winter was very mild with no real wind storms and almost no rain. The year before had two that weren't dirt carriers but very gusting. When these storms happen it can still be 70 degrees and sunny. The so I may not be real bright because of the Dust but there are still no clouds up there.
From my experience it's never been as bad in the Q but it does get windy. Just like any other place if you go to the Q or Yuma or the river or Phoenix and only stay a week or two or even a month you may not experience the best or worst. You are in the desert so it is dusty. It's not grass or fields where everything is rooted in and covering the dirt. Most of the time you can have the windows open if it's windy and Dusty we close the windows and run the air conditioner.
There really aren't any bugs there because it's too dry. There is a lot of life in the ground to escape the heat. I have heard Of rattlesnakes twice. A small one bit a lady's dog that was sitting under her lawn chair by a campfire one night and another guy in SoCal said that he'd seen one in the brush when he was walking. I have climbed the 2000 foot mountains out there and been in washes and I've never run into a rattlesnake. Some will say that you won't see rattlesnakes in the winter but that's not true of all of the species some of them don't hibernate they sort of semi hibernate.
Because it's desert you really don't have many tall trees so you're very few obstacles over head to worry about. Tall trees don't do well in Wind either so you see a lot more scrub type stuff out there. It seldom rains but when it does it must rain very hard because it creates huge washers and tears stuff up. The rainy season is not during the winter.
I've spent a good amount of winter time in Texas but not the Rio Grande Valley. After 6 years of looking at this stuff on the internet I notice that the Rio Grande Valley has years when people say the weather was fantastic and there's times when they say it's not so good. So it's just like the desert or Florida. I could go to the Rio Grande Valley for a week or two or month and say that it rained a lot. Or if I went all season long for a few years I'd get a better idea of what the weather is really like by seeing a bigger picture.
You can probably find nice RV parks around the Houston Livingstone College Station but to me it's not a tourist type feel. It can get a slight dust of snow and it can get ice storms covering your car but the ground never freezes. I've also been there in the winter when it was nice all the time and the most I ever put on was a light jacket and even then it was sunny. If they do get an ice storm everyone down there thinks the world's coming to an end and they all storm Walmart and buy out all the water and batteries. We just look out the windowand laugh.
I traveled back and forth to Florida but not spent a lot of time in the gulf states. When I've stayed for a few days in Louisiana and Mississippi I get noseeum bites. Noseeum are common to swampy areas and bayous. There something about the eggs being layed in the mangroves and the tide being part of the life cycle. From what people tell me the noseeum are like mosquitoes in the respect that they will bite some people and not others. The difference with the 2 is that the mosquito is penetrating your skin with a stinger the noseam Burrows under your skin and is alive in there. Depending on the part of the country they call him noseam gnats stingers Midge. They form welts and itching that can be so bad that you will wake up grinding your legs or scratching. They are also like mosquitoes as far as when they're worse. Mosquitoes are often out in the early evening if you avoid them then and then come out later they'll be okay. Noseeums like the shade and nighttime so once the sun gets real hot during the day there's usually not a problem. They can be very bad in the grass even when the sun is out because that's where they're taking shelter out of the Sun.
I have been to North Central Florida during the winter and not had any problem with them at all. There's probably plenty of Inland Florida that has no problem but I would also say that it could be different in the summer.
I spent 8 days at malaquite campground right on the golf out on Padre Island. A lot of things started to rust and the exterior hardware was corroding, the wheels on my year old truck we're starting to rust. It's usually Breezy and sunny but the air is very harsh because of the salt.
So there are some characteristics of each area that don't change but a person could spend the winter in one area and think that it's terrible because of the weather that year. So we have to suffer through all this and find our favorite places.
