Thanks for your help, it's net 10 days at the destination, and I have
another 6 days for travel back and forth.
"Ad absurdum per aspera" wrote in message
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>> We like nature, museums, scenery and historic or architectural sites.
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> I'd then emphasize time in the "Hill Country," Austin, and San
> Antonio; and a more southerly route. South Padre Island, 'way down
> in the tip of Texas, is worth the modest extra distance for wildlife
> (including the snowbird, of course!).
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>> We are coming from the Northeast (Ontario) so for this trip, I think that
>> Western Texas will have to wait for another time.
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> Probably a good call for 10 days (especially if you mean net 5 days at
> the destinations, rather than 10 days plus travel to and from). It's
> a big place with much to see and long roads in between. Concentrate
> on the abovementioned areas and savor the anticipation of the Big Bend
> country and (in the same trip or a third one) the Guadalupe
> Mountains, with an excursion to Carlsbad Caverns and maybe Living
> Desert State Park (etc.) in New Mexico for later.
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> --Joe
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