Saying Goodbye
March 19, 2007
Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge is six miles from Harley’s on the backside of Bayview. Ranger Rudy is in the maintenance department. We miss him; he was our supervisor when we volunteered there a few years back. We had given him our little peckie bird back to fix for us; he would slide down his pole without pecking or worse, just stop. Rudy had him for a week or so and fixed him right up; now he pecks right down his metal pole. Rudy named him Felipe. We got Felipe back with some sand paper in instruction. The rest of the morning we spent driving around the auto loop. An indigo snake slithered across the road, an alligator sunned on the side of Pelican Lake and old coots swam about. We spotted birds: caracara, black vulture, shrike, osprey, heron, grackle, black and white gulls with red beaks, a black and white duck, 
cormorants, an oriel, a flock of red-wing blackbirds, a whisting duck, two osprey were in osprey field down near moronco blanco trailhead, kiskadee, cardinal, greenjay, curloo, hawk with black wings with white stripes, mockingbird, doves and a few we recognized as birds rather than mammals or reptiles, but didn’t get a good look at.
We stopped at Harley's and put up our Van Go license plate and said our goodbyes. John and Sylvia are such nice people.
Next stop was Challenger Center in San Benito to say our goodbyes there. The only one in today was Art so we chatted a bit, got a picture of the new telescopes and headed out.
Back at Dixie Storage in LaFaria we put the MR2 on jacks and locked her up for the next six months. Today is a good day to drive.
It felt good to be in the Roadtrek, home. We stopped for the night along the road in Sullivan City and watched some West Wing before bed.
Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge is six miles from Harley’s on the backside of Bayview. Ranger Rudy is in the maintenance department. We miss him; he was our supervisor when we volunteered there a few years back. We had given him our little peckie bird back to fix for us; he would slide down his pole without pecking or worse, just stop. Rudy had him for a week or so and fixed him right up; now he pecks right down his metal pole. Rudy named him Felipe. We got Felipe back with some sand paper in instruction. The rest of the morning we spent driving around the auto loop. An indigo snake slithered across the road, an alligator sunned on the side of Pelican Lake and old coots swam about. We spotted birds: caracara, black vulture, shrike, osprey, heron, grackle, black and white gulls with red beaks, a black and white duck, 
cormorants, an oriel, a flock of red-wing blackbirds, a whisting duck, two osprey were in osprey field down near moronco blanco trailhead, kiskadee, cardinal, greenjay, curloo, hawk with black wings with white stripes, mockingbird, doves and a few we recognized as birds rather than mammals or reptiles, but didn’t get a good look at.
We stopped at Harley's and put up our Van Go license plate and said our goodbyes. John and Sylvia are such nice people.
Next stop was Challenger Center in San Benito to say our goodbyes there. The only one in today was Art so we chatted a bit, got a picture of the new telescopes and headed out.Back at Dixie Storage in LaFaria we put the MR2 on jacks and locked her up for the next six months. Today is a good day to drive.
It felt good to be in the Roadtrek, home. We stopped for the night along the road in Sullivan City and watched some West Wing before bed.
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