Check La Paloma off the list. At cumulative mile 15,192. A small unincorporated town just northeast of Brownsville with no post office and no town hall. So the cemetery is my proof of presence.
Before finding La Paloma, I spent a few more days in Corpus Christ and then South Padre Island. The Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi is wonderful. It seemed to me to bring in the terrestrial side of things more than I have seen in other aquariums. Many of the exhibits combined water and land environments, and there was a high headroom exhibit with free flying birds. And sharks.
I took this to be funny. But as I look at it…
- Supervision of whom or what?
- You can’t just declare yourself absolved of injuries and imply some other adult is responsible.
My opinion.
I spent a day on Padre Island driving through miles of some of the only remaining intact coastal prairie in the United States. Sea level rise won’t treat this environment kindly. The National Park Service signs still say so. I headed up to Port Aransas and took the ferry back to the mainland and headed to South Padre Island. Three and a half hours to get from northern tip of Padre to southern tip of South Padre. If you like golf carts, resorts, and arcades, you’ll like South Padre Island.
From South Padre Island I headed inland, through La Paloma, and spent the night in Laredo. Where it is very hot, and the cattle stand very still.
The Journey 