Day two point five: Old Guerrero (again) and more

Well, a little more gospel from the coast. Yesterday we were out all day long running a bunch of viejitos to Guerrero viejo, the old Mexican town on Falcon lake opposite Zapata. Started out at around 5am from the house, and dropped D off over in Harlingen to escort the bus to its other stops (Weslaco, Donna, Pharr and Mission). I followed along behind in La suegras car (we had been promised that the jeep would be ready over in Mission....it's been OOC for about three weeks now...always the same old story...manana....manana, then the mechanic ordered the wrong fuel pump, so it's back to manana again...but that's another whole story.

It had been raining overnight, and looked pretty grey all the way out to Rio Grande City. We had about 40 people on board, so it wasn't all that bad. They were a pretty good bunch too, and anyway I was N-GAS about the whole thing, so by time we reached Guerrero, everything was going pretty well (except for the microphone which kept cutting in and out on the rough road).

The water in Falcon Lake is now up around the edge of town, near the old church, which it hasn't been for many years. In fact, I had never seen it there, so it was kind of spooky....I'll post a pic tomorrow or next post (whichever comes first) whenever I can download the camera...

The food was as siempre, good. (As usual) I had the fish, which was lightly fried black bass filet (a big one) with rice, corn, tortillas, totopos, two different salsas (a wonderful green and a salsa de comal red) and a desert of butter pecan ice cream...not bad for a little Mexican town in the middle of nowhere...oh yea, and the complimentary margarita was excellent. El doctor took care of all of the arrangements, as we learned, sadly, that Rogelio appears to be very sick, if not terminal with cancer. We hadn't seen him since last year, and he wasn't there yesterday either.

It took a while to cross US customs, and we arrived back in Mission around 630pm or so. I had a presentation to the Texas Master Naturalists last night from 6 to 9, so I ended up there late. Another Lab thing, by request. We got there around 730 or so and I lectured till around 930, then D drove back home. We didn't arrive till pretty close to eleven....