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The ultimate kingfisher sighting was the elusive Amazon kingfisher , which was first spotted at Zacate Creek in The sighting caused quite a stir—nearly 1, birders came out to spot and snap the little beauty within 10 days of the sighting. The Laredo Birding Festival continues to celebrate the array of wildlife and birds like the Kingfisher unique to this area. The Max A.
Mandel Municipal Golf Course is ranked among the top 50 municipal golf courses in the U. With rolling greens that sit along the banks of the Rio Grande, this par course spans across a beautiful acres. Designed by architect Robert Trent Jones Jr. Built with every level of player in mind, the course has five sets of tees, ranging from 4, to 7, yards, and can be played in loops of three, six, nine or 18 holes. The course is the first city-owned course in the city, and is more than just a golf course.
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And the high school where Coocoo was going had all these beautiful, gorgeous girls that were her friends, and we just wanted to go to their parties and hang out with them. And we would bring the beer from Mexico or something else to contribute. So they would contribute the house and the food, and maybe we'll contribute the mixers, and it worked out. Because we have so many nicknames here on the border. I know people that are named Titi and Tata and Tico.
It's just very common to have little diminutive names.
Everyone calls me that. Fernando: People mostly call me by my last name. It's an unusual last name. Now I introduce myself as Baldazo. I don't even mention my first name. Elizabeth: There could be other Fernandos, but there's no Baldazos. He's a unique character, so he has a unique name to go with it. Beck: After high school, did either of you go off to college in a different town, or move for work?
Or have you always stayed in the Laredo area? Fernando: Coocoo left for college in Boston. I remember writing to you and you sending postcards. Maybe a random call once in a while. Back then, it was really expensive for long-distance calls, like 25 or 50 cents a minute. And when she would come down for Thanksgiving or something like that, we would all meet at somebody's house for a party. Elizabeth: The conversations in the letters were things like I remember when his dog died, and he was really sad about that.
Elizabeth: So he'd tell me about Dusty, or he'd tell me about some girl he was dating, or that they'd just recently broken up. Our conversations started getting deeper, instead of being the high-school-fun kind of thing. We started getting into a deeper friendship, the farther that we were apart, through letters and postcards. I moved to Mexico City after college for a couple of years, and I have letters also from that time. Then I came back to Laredo, when my mom opened up her real-estate company.
I was gonna do that temporarily, but I liked it and have been here since. Since being back here, I see him more than I see any of my other friends.
My extended family knows him so well, they invite him to every wedding, they invite him for Christmas, they invite him for Thanksgiving. If we think family in Laredo, we think Fernando. Elizabeth: Yeah. I took her and her boyfriend out to dinner. Things like that.
Beck: Going back a bit, you mentioned how you guys started to talk about more real stuff in the letters, which you didn't necessarily do beforehand. Once Elizabeth came back and you started hanging out in person, was that weird because you guys had been exchanging very personal stories through letters?
Or was that a benefit? Fernando: It was a benefit. Elizabeth : There was no sense of awkwardness or like, Now I feel exposed. It was just a natural progression. With some friends in high school, you grow closer as you get older, or maybe you grow further apart. When I got diagnosed with cancer, after my freshman year of college, I was away in Boston, so my friends here in Laredo didn't physically see me. They couldn't really tell if I was okay. There was no internet back then, so it was just letters, like, "How are you? How's everything going? It was like, "Yeah, I'm getting treatment for cancer, but it's all good.
I went to this bar this weekend and I took this class.
Then as we got older, those conversations just got deeper, and we started thinking about, Wow, you had cancer. And then we would talk about that with more depth. Fernando: Right before you were diagnosed with cancer, I had a bad accident on the motorcycle. I had broken five bones of my leg. They were about to amputate it, but the doctors were able to save it. And that makes you evaluate life and friendships and everything.