Ferry--or not

We joined our friends Bob and Pat and their friends John and Carol in a biking adventure today. We went to Los Ebanos to take the hand-drawn ferry across the Rio Grande to Mexico. Then we planned to bike to the nearby town of Diaz Ordaz for lunch. When we arrived at the ferry it turned out that the information John had been given that the ferry was operating "regularly" was a bit optimistic. No one was at the ferry, and folks at the nearby store said it hadn't been operating at all recently.


Pat, John, and Carol were the first to walk down to check out the ferry.














Lee and John noticed the fast current that might be the reason why the ferry wasn't working.










So we decided to bike around Los Ebanos a bit and then go to lunch. We visited the local cemetery, where the graves were colorfully decorated, mainly with plastic flowers. One grave had a hand-carved wooden marker showing the woman's face and giving the names of her husband and her ten children. And we stopped to see the local church.


Lee and Bob led the way into the cemetary.




Some of the monuments showed a lot of creativity.



















As we looked over the church, we were a colorful group.















Then we went to lunch at a Mexican place in Mission called Taco Ole. It's a local place, and the parking lot was full (always a good sign). We got a chance to visit a bit with John and Carol Lee, who are fellow Escapees and square dancers.

For supper we had black bean soup with rice and a sweet and sour bean salad, with more chocolate pudding dessert. Afterwards we spent some time trip planning. It's an incremental business that we do in fits and starts.