4/30/2004 Court TV Commercials Part 6
Here are some commercials that were shown during a classic Cops episode on April 30, 2004. They include: -Forensic Files promo -Court TV program ...
Day 34: Langtry, Texas
The above is the sunset from my campsite last evening. Eventually, the clouds dissipated revealing a full moon and in the early morning some wonderful star gazing. It was warm enough that I slept with my bag open.
I decided to let the winds determine my fate today. If they were from the north or west, my direction of travel, I would take a tour of the petroglyphs here and have a short ride to Langtry later in the afternoon. If from the south or east, I would do the long haul into Sanderson. For the next few days, the towns are all spaced 50-70 miles apart with almost nothing in between. When I awoke the winds were strong and from the west. My choice was made.
My campsite this morning was like an aviary United Nations meeting. I’ve never seen or heard a more diverse collection of birds. I’m regretting not bringing the binoculars and my Sibley guide.
With a short ride ahead of me, I took my time getting up. At 10am, I rode to the visitor’s center and joined a tour of the Fate Bell Shelter, a site
where a nomadic group known as the “Pecos People” lived and left cliff paintings more than 4,000 years ago. (This is the part of my blog where I can hear my daughter falling asleep…her forehead just hit the desk.) These are the oldest in the U.S. Not much is known about the Pecos People; no current Native Americans count them in their lineage. But, anthropologists do know what they ate. When excavating the site, a large volume of coprolite was discovered. Coprolite is fossilized fecal matter. (From a trip to Utah, I once brought my son a coprolite – dinosaur dung – guessing that he would find it interesting, if not funny. Given his response, I should have gone for the t-shirt.) Scientists were able to reconstitute the original matter and determined that the Pecos People lived on fish, deer, lizards, grass, twigs, cactus and insects; in other words, a true subsistence diet.