Eggs,
potato, bacon, chorizo, salsa, grilled flour tortilla. All freshly
prepared at Laredo Taco Company.
Filling.
And Laredo Taco Company is built right into the gas station convenience
store. How’s that for convenient?
Breakfast
of champions. Or, a late breakfast could be an early lunch, setting up an
early dinner and call it good for the day.
It’s
a southern kind of bird.
This
one is a male. We can tell by the red crown.
This
map popped up on my cellphone. Google Maps has tracked all the places
we’ve visited in the last few years.
Let’s
see. We could spend a little more time in Nevada, the mid-Atlantic
states, or the Eastern provinces of Canada just to fill in the map a little
better.
Making
their own superhighway across the yard.
Are
they cutting leaves and carrying them home? No. They’re stealing
corn kernels from under a bird feeder!
Leaf
cutter ants are gardeners. They don’t eat the leaves they carry
home. They stash them and grow a fungus on them that they then use for
food. This particular colony of ants carrying corn, what can they be
doing, other than making moonshine?
This
morning’s Wordle.
The tent in daytime
configuration.
Jesse, just because.
A little mesquite fire the
last night out.
An Inca Dove.
Having a thing with a
blackbird.
One last javelina
eyeballing us from the brush.
The dogs and javelina
never had any issues with each other. We thought Jesse might be our
javelina alarm every night, but we could hear them snuffling outside our tent
and Jesse just slept through it. The dogs were great campers.
Piled the pups (and
everything else) in the car this morning.
And drove home.
The dogs happy to be here
while we unload.
Every morning was super
wet whether it rained at night or not. Fog and dew, so we put the tent
away wet this morning. Got it set up at home in the yard to dry it out
just in time for the pouring down afternoon storm.
Maybe it will dry out
tomorrow.
We’ve settled into a
rhythm. When we arrive, Judy takes the dogs for a walk, and I set up the
tent and put the cots in it. They’re kind of heavy. That takes
about half an hour. Then I go for a walk and Judy turns the interior into
a home in the course of another half hour. She has turned into the master
organizer, keeping track of everything we have, where it is, and where it goes.
We went camping for three
nights. Enjoyed being out in the elements. Extended for an extra
night. Planning the next trip. There were things we didn’t need to
take, and things we could have used but didn’t have, so we’ve already bought
them. The adventure continues.
Here is where we were at
Falcon State Park.
I’ve zoomed the map in on
our camp site right in the middle of the frame. You can zoom out to
explore. See if you can pick out the loop trail that goes all the way
around the park. Sections are marked Whitebrush, Woodlands, Desert, Verdin,
and Roadrunner, but they all tie together in a loop. Salineno Wildlife
Preserve where we walk along the river is a little south, and Edinburg, where
we live, is farther southeast.
