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We arrived at Mission, 75 miles west of Port Isabel, yesterday afternoon. Stopped at Camping World to have motor home serviced and enjoyed a lunch of enchiladas at Danny's restaurant while we waited. The private RV park is in an old citrus grove. We may pick grapefruit as we please. Our neighbor reports a campground roadrunner, but we haven't met it yet.

Today's dawn found us at the Santa Anna National Wildlife Refuge at the Rio Grande. We found only one new life bird, the tropical parula, a small blue and yellow warbler. Otherwise we found many of the other Texas specialties we first encountered last week. We visited a spring hawk watch that was having its first day at the refuge. It was led by a George Wilhelm, a former Pennsylvanian. He told us that it would probably be another week before a significant migration begins.

Hello everybody! Just thought I would send a little note from abroad. My parents were great enough to send me to Europe for a few weeks after my program ended so that I would get a chance to visit my friends here and because I didnt get that same abroad experience. Last Thursday night I flew into Dublin, Ireland where my friend Emily is studying. We spent the weekend there, visiting castles and taking a tour of the famous Guinness Storehouse. Monday morning the two of us flew to Paris where our good friend Sarah is taking a semester. We were lucky enough to be gifted a free weekly metro pass from someone who was leaving the country. Weve spent the week so far visiting cafés and musées. I apoligize for the poor typing but Im using the cyber centre next to our hostel in Montrmartre and the keyboards weird. Today we went to the Centre Pompidou and took the tour to the top of the Notre Dame towers. Then we climbed some stairs to the beautiful view of the Sacré Coeur. Tomorrow we will be visiting the Louvre, the Champs-elysées, the Eiffel Tower and a fondue restaurant that supposedly serves wine out of baby bottles?! Friday, we (Em, Sarah and I) are flying to the Netherlands with some other friends for the weekend. And then next monday morning we will be leaving for Rome, Italy where two of my friends are studying and have an apartment and some friends from the states are meeting us. I'm extremely excited and have had an excellent time so far. I will be flying home on the 26th of March. I hope to see you all soon!!

Couldn't resist. Had to send this article.
"Clooney's movies as basis for neocon foerieng policy"

I think its time to join a support group and repeat the following mantra "Must stop blogging; must stop blogging; must stop blogging".

here's an interesting article reviewing a new theory on why the average temperature at the earth's crust is rising.

it argues it is not caused by humans' increased emission of CO2 and other greenhouse gases.

Greenhouse theory

Melissa wrote a play currently entitled What Time? It's being produced by the Blue Rose Theatre Company with Melissa as the Producer. May 3-May 6 at 7pm SHS Black Box. Congratulations, Melissa, Gallups', Woods', Carbones" and all! You make our lives more interesting.

The wind blows frequently and strongly in south Texas and it is both damp and arid here on the coast. Chuck had to hold on firmly to the steering wheel to take us from north Padre Island (near Corpus Christi) to this town across the Laguna Madre from South Padre Island.

With gusts forcast to hit 50 mph the next day, we took care of chores and relaxed for a day, only visiting the famous marsh "boardwalk" at the South Padre Island Convention Center in search of rails and bitterns. We have now had great looks at three there, the clapper, sora, and Virginia. We even saw a clapper clapping.

From the NYT magazine

"Manliness"

I just found out that I have been accepted into my school's civilizations abroad program in Pune, India.

I'll be there from late September until early December learning about the region's culture and history, traveling around the country, and learning some Hindi. I'm very very excited and happy!

it'll be a lot of fun and i'll be sure to take lots of photos.