My old pal (bless him) Ben Dial, as an undergraduate student: 3 in one night during an electrical storm on old US Hwy 90 in 1965; Loren Peterson, a graduate student from UC Riverside: gravid female and first L. alterna (huge light blairs morph) the first live specimen I ever saw in 1968 while I was still in high school; and Rocky Ward (Mr. light phase) with his TMTC kingsnakes in discarded 1/2 gallon milk cartons who sold 'em off for beer and gas money. Then came Dennie Miller as an undergraduate student, Claude Lee Box with his snake side-show trailer in Langtry (and his son Brian as a really little kid), the amazingly entertaining Mr. Earl Turner, the calculating J. R. Lilley, along with Eric Tomias, Bob Sloan and a host of the southern Val Verde County locals.Then there were Q-beams that melted your seat covers, the Scram Bros., the Chamberlains, the Duncans, Mike Geiger, the Sodaberg Bros., George Burdick, David Easterla and finally good ol' John Hollister (still miss the Sambo's in Del Rio)...good grief, we're getting old...



Cheers mate,

Bob Haase

aka King of the "Hump de Humps" (Christmas Mountains Hwy 118)

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