It's COLD

After Elvis' house we check the weather forecast - tonight there will be a low of 28 Farenheit (-2 Celsisu). The days have continued to be generally sunny and warm but the nights and the early mornings are another story. We finally chicken out after 17 days on the road with each morning colder than the last and get a hotel near Brownsville.

As we're unpacking the car Roger spots a guy in this field of cotton picking and putting cotton in a
small plastic bag.










Harry is actually from Alabama where he raises some cattle on his 26 acres, but he's moved to New York where he lives aboard a power boat in Long Island Sound. He's going to take the cotton to the "Big Apple" to show his friends where their clothes come from. It turns out that Harry has a connection to Helen the retired psychologist from Laguna - he works on the railroad as a rail grinder, running a big machine that tunes the rails by grinding them down. He's just finished working the rails that Helen was complaining about as being rough. Big country. Small world.