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Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM

Night Watch, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, October 31, 2012
Night Watch, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, October 31, 2012

I'm back

At least I think so. I left Red Rock on October 16th with no interest in continuing this daily journal of my winter travels and decided to drop it. But then this week I stopped back at San Antonio NM and the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge for the first time in a couple of years and find I'm out taking pictures of those magnificent Sandhill Cranes again and I want to share some. So I will, at least for a while. We'll see how it goes.

Night camp

Site 16 - Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, San Antonio NM

Sell Them Down the River

Brown had in his camp a fine-looking Negro, who said he had run away from his master in Platte County, Missouri, because the man was going to sell him and his wife to a dealer who would take them south to the Louisiana sugar plantations. The average Missouri Negro looked upon being sold south as one or two degrees worse than being sent straight to hell. This viewpoint was fostered by the masters, who always threatened, when things went wrong, to sell them down the river. ...

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