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We stayed in the only motel. It was nothing more than a cluster of small trailers with window units. We drank bottled water, as the tap water was brown and sulphurous. A bird was staying in a nearby tree. A local storekeeper told us it was a Rain Bird. It turned out to be a Scott's Oriole. The picture (right) is from the Golden Books Field Guide to North American Birds. I took pictures with my father's then 30-year-old German camera:
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BIG BEND Big Bend is a great place to go in the spring or fall. We went in August. Wow, was it ever hot. August 1980 was one of the hottest months on record for Texas weather, with 30 straight days of 100 degrees or more, even here in Austin. We couldn't stay in the nice mountain lodge on park land, because we had Pirate with us. So we stayed in Terlingua. Cool name. Unusual place, with scary abandoned silver mines. The entrances were just unmarked open shafts in the middle of nowhere. You could be strolling along looking at the lovely distant horizon and drop out of sight forever.
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