We left San Antonio about 9:30am We had taken our friends Eric and Pat to the Airport then came back packed up checked out and headed down I-35 to highway 90. We took highway 90 west all the way to Del Rio stopped at Seminole Canyon State park and had lunch. We took a bit longer than needed. I was trying to make a video for my boss who is leaving for a new job and things just weren’t right (the audio had wind noise in it, the dialog was not right and so on, scrap that) so off we went west to Marathon Texas.  About 270 miles from San Antonio then a left turn down highway 385 for another 70 miles to Rio Grande Village on the Mexican border. Our cameras were rolling all the way and we have some amazing footage! We pulled in and it was about 7ish.

We had the hardest time trying to park the trailer in a spot, it was like we had never done this before, but we had a hundred times. I tried it about 4 or 5 times, and then Tom tried it and finally got it on the 5th try! We figured our equilibriums were off or something.

Once setup it was still light so we grabbed our cameras and went tooling around the southeastern part of the park down Boquillas Canyon. It was the right thing to do, there was a rainbow to the east the clouds broke to the west and the sun was going down. Soon there was a double rainbow and the sky lit up in oranges and reds the clouds had drifted to one side of the sky and streaking across the sky were bight silver linings of the clouds.

We pulled of the road several times to film and take pictures, we could see the river (the Rio Grande) and Mexican side was majestic oh my, it was right out of some story book, it looked like someone painted the high cliffs and clouds, they went on forever. While at the river overlooking on a high bluff, down below we seen some men and some horses on the Mexican side, on our side tom seen these items (dream catchers and walking sticks and drawings, they had sighs on the ground that read in English, please buy these items to help the children of Mexico) and they had prices next to them all listed on the scrap cardboard, little sales men if you ask me. Soon tom seen this guy swimming across the river ( I was filming something) and next thing you know this Mexican scrambles up the bluff all wet and muddy in his underwear. A red flag went off in my head and I said Tom lets go, the Mexican was say something about buying these things for the children and wanted to deal, I said adios. We hoped in the car and head out of there before who knows what. You know sometimes you can feel in your gut that this is not a good situation and time to run, well that was my feeling.

We headed back to camp, I made some pasta and had some left over venison and made a nice little dinner. We were wore out from the day of travel and called it a night about 11:30, but before we turned in we sat outside and watched the stars come out in the holes of the clouds and in the western part of the sky. It was amazing, I hope we get to see more of that and I hope it fills the whole sky. I drifted off to sleep with my head in the clouds and my eyes on the stars.

Life is good, but the whole day I keep thinking about my aunt Marie, my mom had called early that day to tell me she had died. I was not expecting that, I knew she had just taken ill about a week ago, I had no clue it would end like this so soon. I loved my aunt Marie, she was the one person who always made light of a bad situation and always had a smile for you. You know they never really leave they just walk on by and soon enter into the world of the spirit.