Croft's Pizzeria

I just discovered I can cook great pizzas in our convection oven! We have never experimented with the Apollo Half Time Convection Oven that came with the motorhome. It works great as a microwave but that was all we ever did with it. Today I bought an oven ready pizza and tried it out. Sixteen minutes later I had a perfectly cooked, bubbling, two and a half pound pizza! Sometimes I amaze myself!

Great Starchoice Aiming Aid

I have probably mentioned this site before but it is worth repeating. Set the satellite as "Starchoice 107W & 111W", put the cursor on your location on the map and you are given your aiming information. It works on all systems like Bell, Dish etc. Slick! (I guess now the expression is "Sick")

http://www.dishpointer.com/

Rio Bravo del Norte

In Mexico it is the Rio Bravo del Norte and in the USA it is the Rio Grande. No matter what you call it, a short section of this river between El Paso (Juarez) and the Gulf of Mexico sets the line separating the United Mexican States and the United States of America. No, those of you north of the border, you are not the only “United States”!

In the years prior to the Civil War, the Rio Bravo was used as an escape point for fleeing slaves as slavery was abolished in Mexico in 1828. It is now being used as a crossing point for Mexican workers trying to find work in the USA.

The river flows right beside our RV park and the boat ramp here is used by the Border Patrol for launching their rubber boats which patrol the river. Sitting at the pool the other day a long time resident of the park told us one day shooting was heard from up the river and the Border patrol came to the pool and ordered everyone out of the pool and clubhouse and to the other side of a berm on the property. Another time she said a Suburban Van backed down the boat ramp in the middle of the night and began loading bales of marijuana that were floating down the river until they were interrupted by the Border Patrol. Many bales of the drug sank in the river and she says divers were collecting it for several days after. Humm, maybe they missed one..

Never a dull moment! Yes, that is Mexico on the other side.

Luxury!

Here is the pool and hot tub at the River Bend RV Park in Brownsville, TX. The pool is kept at 84 and I don't know the temperature of the hot tub but it is very warm! It is a great park at $171 per week and NO ANTS!

Point Isabel Light

Point Isabel was a strategic area during the Civil War. Whoever controlled the area also controlled the shipping point into Mexico where smuggled cotton found it’s way to Europe. I decided not to climb the fifty some stairs and the ladder at the top but now am regretting it. Oh well, there will be more lighthouses this trip!

Cart Rumble

This is MY cart. You got a problem with that?

Hmmm....... Quote Of The Day.

Jim Morrison Pardoned

Jim Morrison of The Doors was awarded a posthumous pardon today for an alleged indecent exposure incident during a 1969 concert in Florida. Both band members and Morrison’s wife say the incident never happened, that it was simply a “slight of hand” trick (so to speak). In his wife’s words, "Despite the fact that there were 10,000 people in the hall that night, funny thing, no one has a picture of the actual exposure of the Lizard King's lizard."

Charlie Crist, the former Governor of Florida and a Doors fan has been working on the pardon for several years and it was finally granted. Most people who knew the singer are convinced he would never have wanted the pardon and probably would have torn it up. He was a big believer in artistic expression and never believed he did anything wrong. The band and his wife are convinced that the whole arrest was a political stunt to get Morrison out of circulation and to squelch the counter culture movement he stood for.

Today these things are simply written off as “Costume Malfunctions” LOL.

John Lennon

Here is a note on the anniversary of John Lennon's death by a person who actually knew him:

Link to Viva Veracruz

San Benito, TX

Hometown of Baldemar Garza Huerta, better known as Freddy Fender! I used to be able to sing along to most of his songs. Now I might even be able to do the Spanish parts!