(strongly chuckling) Joseephuss, I've learned more about you today, than in years posting with you on site. Thanks for the share.
You would have enjoyed things back then. And both Corpus Christi and Mexico were a lot of fun and nowhere as dangerous as these days.
The center for gangs went from San Antonio, to El Paso...to now, the #1 juvenile delinquency area is located in Corpus.
My brother was in their, A&I, first Doctoral program started there. It was in Bilingual Education.
Adjustment to high levels of heat, isn't easy for many folks. It seems that person can take either extremes of cold, or extremes of heat. But mixing one for the other, at least to my references, takes some time.
Thanks for sharing, and yea, even a Javelina receives a sheep skin.