Zipolite Express – Vol. 3 – issue 7, Oct. 30, 2011 It is finally hot

Posted on October 31, 2011 by William
Zipolite Express – Vol. 3 – issue 7, Oct. 30, 2011
It is finally hot
We are now in Laredo at Lake Casa Blanca (lake of the white house) State Park. Tomorrow we hit the Mexican border and make a run to get away from the border and hope to not get robbed or worse, but I am not going to think about that and that is tomorrow let me talk about today.
One of my silly observations is that the people who live here do not speak English. I was listening in on a conversation last night and did not feel like I was eaves dropping as I did not understand one word and they were not speaking Spanish. I thought that the southern drawl was thick in Louisiana last year but it is much worse in Texas.
Today the sky was absolutely clear without a cloud in the sky, but the air in Texas is dirty. It seems that you can dust something, including you glasses, blink twice and you have to do it again. It really makes appreciate the clean air of Stoney Creek. And for those of you who don’t live there, Hamilton and Stoney Creek have surprisingly clean air even compared to Toronto.
On another environmental note, they seem to have severe problems here with water. They either have too much or too little. At the moment it is too little. There are amazing flood control and general water control everywhere you look. I even saw flood scales so people can easily see how bad things are. One road announced that the road was impassable when the light was flashing. Texas seems to be a place of extremes. Along with the large churches they have the world largest pawn and porn shops.
Driving along the roads I always get upset with the dead animals at the side of the road. So far we have seen two dead armadillos and I find that particularly distressing. For some reason I feel an affinity to the little creatures.
I have already mentioned the bright skies but the temperature has finally got up to 77? and the long pants are off. I hope that tonight will not be too cold, but nights have been very cold and for me unpleasant. It is also surprising that we are now back to summer with all the trees and even the grass a bright green. The landscape has continued to be flat with a lot of scrub trees. The trees are not as large as trees in Ontario, in fact they tend to look like very large shrubs. Many are very twisted and gnarled covered in moss like growths. I was thinking that it is the kind of landscape to film a grizzly horror film in, during bad weather.
Enough blabber for today. I hope that you get this missive and if you don’t call out the search party. But then how can you send out the search party if you don’t get this. Whatever, enjoy.
Guillermo norte
PS. I forgot to tell you that we have seen a real Roadrunner and they do have that amazingly long tail. There has also been white herons and a little bunny.