People Who Made This Year Special

On December 7, 2023

One of the wonderful things about traveling is the people who share your experiences. Some of these are really essential to those experiences – like the people who guide our tours and the others who get us to the places we visit. This year we were very lucky to travel with some great folks! Here […]

Southwest and Highlands Costa Rica

On December 6, 2023

In January, Terry kicked off his birding year with long-time buddy Jim Arneson in Costa Rica after an absence of nearly 30 years. After meeting guide Jorge Campos in San Jose CR, the pair headed for the Pacific coast, ending up at the exquisite Esquinas Rainforest Lodge in southwestern Costa Rica. This area of tropical […]

Oaxaca Highlights

On December 5, 2023

Terry and I enjoyed a fun trip to Oaxaca this past March. We traveled with our good friend Dan Williams (Barbara Williams had to stay home with COVID). We had two great guides — Jorge Montejo Diaz and Amy McAndrews. Our route is shown in the map below (Oaxaca is star #5). The mountains around […]

Captivating Cuba

On December 4, 2023

We finally made it to Cuba this year! This is a trip we’d wanted to do for a long time. We went in late March with Victor Emanuel Nature Tours (VENT), largely because the guide was David Ascanio, who we’d met at Panama’s Canopy Tower back in 2003. It was a short, 11-day trip packed […]

Adventure in Angola

On December 3, 2023

In May, we traveled to a place that many people haven’t heard about, much less visited — Angola. Here’s the story of why and what we found there. And for more on Angola’s biodiversity, check out the article on Terry’s “Saving Terra” substack! Where – and What – is Angola? As you see on the […]

A Brief Introduction to Portugal

On December 2, 2023

It’s not simple to travel to Angola. We knew there would have to be an intermediate stop. It turns out that even today, Angola’s colonial history still places its hand on the scale. The best flights to Angola are through Lisbon, the capital of its former colonial power. Since we had heard from many different […]

Bolivia from the Andes to the Amazon

On December 1, 2023

Our final foreign trip for this year was to Bolivia. It’s a country with great habitat and cultural diversity. We saw and learned a lot, even though there were many other things we didn’t have time to explore. Our guide was a friend we’ve traveled with before, Emiliano Garcia Loyola (nicknamed Indio), with Sereima Tours. […]

Rising Tides Roulette

On November 10, 2023

In recent years, communities in Texas and around the world have been experiencing storms that are more intense than in the past. Recovery from these events and reduction in damage from future events create numerous challenges. Finding a fair and appropriate balance is an important challenge for communities, their planners and everyone concerned with living […]

T. D. Morgan Releases Second Novel

On December 24, 2022

Terry published his second novel this year on Amazon, The Wrong Client, under his pen name T.D. Morgan. Set in Texas, Brazil and Argentina, the novel is a legal and adventure thriller that follows the lives of half a dozen young professionals – lawyers, architects and biologists – who find themselves entangled in an international […]

Strategic Community Solutions Completes Major Projects

On December 24, 2022

This year, several long-running projects for Strategic Community Solutions LLC (SCS) were completed. This summer saw the completion of an update to Lewisville’s Green Centerpiece Master Strategy. First adopted in 2016, this strategy addresses almost 7,000 acres of land adjacent to Lewisville Lake, including management of important natural habitat and research areas, educational programs for […]