Travels with Howie

Tuesday, March 25, 2014 7:30 cdst 72 degrees

This week we visited Boca Chica village which is situated one mile north of the mouth of the Rio Grande which is a long way from Brownsville or any other settlement...maybe 18 or 20 miles. It began with an advertisement somewhere up north. I didn't find out the name of the developer or the newspaper, but the ad was in Polish.
2,000 lots were sold unseen but only 32 house were actually built.

There are only 6 non-Polish who live here now and 5 decedents of the early Polish owners. It's easy to spot which houses they live in because the rest are in pretty poor shape

Looks like one is still hoping for a sale.

funny!

There is a big problem with owning a house here..no water. Each house seems to have at least one of these water tanks, the water being brought in from Brownsville.

Boarded up but nice. Maybe anticipating a revitalization of the village because in 1012 a private (not government) space company, SpaceX, bought land here.

Copied from SpaceX's web page :

Our launch manifest is populated by a diverse customer base,

including space station resupply missions, commercial satellite launch missions, and US government science and national security missions.

I went to their site and read the list of anticipated flights in the near future and didn't see any from Boca Chica but who knows. Anyone want to gamble on a land investment?

While there we saw a few of these hooded warblers scurrying around eating. I don't think they live here so I think they are in migration.

Closer to home, I got a lesson on how to buy a shed last week. Neil picked out the shed at

Lowe's and we bought the stuff to make a base for it, and to my surprise, it is delivered in a box about the size and thickness of a twin sized mattress. If I bought a dress and it was delivered as a pattern and a hunk of fabric, I would be upset, but apparently, the men knew this was the way sheds come into the world,