Saturday, January 29, 2011
Victor aka Cuba
In a life affirming demonstration of the importance of getting off the tarmac, the day before yesterday I hung a right toward the mountains and met Victor Hernandez herding 500 borregos north to Antonito, Colorado. Between my halting Spanish and his sweet, talkative self I learned he'd be herding his woolly charges to Antonito in quatro dias, four days. That's five miles or so a day. Victor was camping with the sheep, two collies he called the Daddy and the Puppy, pronounced Poopy, and a pistola for los coyotes. It was a regular time warp. What the hell year is this?
Anyway, I tried to find out where he had come from and how long he'd been here. Since he used the words Florida and Zacatecas I deduced he was Mexican. But about that time his patron Alfonso Abeyta pulled up with a load of firewood and I learned the rest of the story. Victor is, in fact, Cuban and was a boat person who escaped to Florida around 1965. Check. His wife is from Zacatecas. Check. A Cuban shepherd in northern New Mexico. Makes perfect sense to me.
"I call him Cuba." Patron Alfonso told me. It's one one heck of a story and a cool nickname to boot.
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3 comments:
First rate, Steve. You've outdone yourself with this one! Great shot, great story. Congrats!
Thanks John. I might like the writing part more than the pics. May write longer pieces and see where it goes.
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