Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - Harrah's Convenience Store, Laughlin NV
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Catching Some Rays, Great Blue Herons, Burro Creek AZ, March 28, 2011
The five Great Blue Heron pairs nesting on this cliff spend their day leisurely tending the nest and each other. What a privilege it was to be able to watch them for a day.
Night camp
Site 17 - Harrah's Convenience Store RV Parking, Laughlin NV
- Good Verizon cell phone and Broadband service are available here.
- Locate Harrah's Laughlin Convenience Store on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
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. ...