The Mummy

On Wednesday, we stopped at Jack in a Box for lunch in Del Rio, which excited me since we don’t have one in Lubbock. Wyman calls it the child molester place because he thinks Jack looks like a child molester. After lunch we stopped in Langtry, TX on our way to Independence Creek to visit one of Wyman’s friends, Jack Skiles. Mr. Skiles lives on a ranch right along the Mexican border. The Rio Grande runs alongside Mr. Skiles house. Mr. Skiles parents found a mummy in the caves along the river over 50 years ago. Mr. Skiles now keeps the mummy preserved along with many other artifacts in a trailer next to his house. The mummy is about 1200 years old and is an Indian who died from Chaga’s disease, which it is speculated that it was transferred to him by an assassin bug. The mummy still has all of the hair on his head and has a decomposed stomach. Mr. Skiles took us down to a bluff that over looks the Rio Grande to show us the caves where most of the artifacts he owns were found. It was very neat to stand a couple of thousand feet from Mexican soil. Mr. Skiles’ wife has found make shift shoes that illegal aliens have used to cross the border. These shoes are rocks covered in the pant legs of jeans that are tied to one’s feet with shoestrings. These shoes keep the dog cactus from poking one’s foot and don’t leave footprints in the dirt for border patrol to find.