I’ve added a few links to our Resources page (see the top menu bar) that I thought I’d bring to your attention.
One of the things I have missed a bit is access to magazines. Sometimes you just want to peruse Wired, the Utne Reader, or Time. (A thread on a local message board supplied these links.) My favorite is MyMagazines. They have full copies of magazines with a nice reading interface. The other one, Magatopia, has links to tons of magazines. Most go to the magazine website and have limited online content.
Google Book Search is an interesting way to while away an afternoon! Check it out!
When I was a kid I have a very vivid memory of riding in the car with my mother from Stinson Beach to San Francisco and being shocked and amazed by a huge group of migrating Monarch butterflies. The experience has stayed with me for more than 45 years….and I intend to get to their winter resting place near Morelia before too long. The link here is to Journey North, a group who tracks the migration and has many interactive maps and daily update maps. You can even participate by reporting Monarch sitings.
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September 20th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
To the best of my knowledge, I have never seen a monarch butterfly. Oregon is simply not on their path. But, like you, I want to see the butterfly reserve on one of my first outings in Mexico. I think I can do it as an overnight trip.
September 20th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
I too have a childhood memory of the butterflies coming through in TX. It was remarkable. I would love for my kids to see them here.
September 22nd, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Well all of you let me know when you’re ready to go to the reserves. Chinqua is one of the 9 reserves and it is abeautiful three hour drive from San MIguel. It is an adventure to go. You leave here about 8AM, get there, get on the horses and ride up to 10,000 ft. Then you walk on this volcanic ask kind o fdirt and voila there are bazillions of butterflies EVERYWHERE! Bet time to go – enf of February when it has warmed up a bit and they are flying some…………..I have an extremely knowledgeable guide who is Mexican and who formed the Audubon Society here in San Miguel about 20 years ago. He MAKES the trip amazing beyond words.
Right now the “scouts” are coming through and of course there will be streams of butterflies coming through here the last week of October. The indgienous people believe that this is the returning departed souls………..They’re in the forests from November til March. Quite a phenomena!
September 22nd, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Steve and American Mommy, I think we should look up Babs for her trip advice, sounds wonderful! And Babs, thank you, I hope to get there this winter.