What time of the year do trips occur?
By necessity, Tour 2000 Series trips are planned to facilitate land transportation. The poorly maintained dirt roads in succulent habitats can rapidly turn into rivers of mud during the rainy season. Therefore trips are usually scheduled at either the beginning or the end of the dry season. There are always some plants in bloom but the amount and type depends on recent rainfall history which is not predictable at the time of trip planning. In most succulent plant habitats, summer is the rainy season, and avoiding the peak of this period also avoids severe heat and humidity that can make for very uncomfortable travel. Therefore, trips are often held in late spring or early fall (but remember that the seasons are reversed in the southern hemisphere, and seasonality is reduced in equatorial areas). Convention Trips are always held either just before or just after the biennial conventions. Usually the conventions are held during the summer, and weather during such periods can be quite hot.
