Apr 15, 2012 | Desert Sun
Life on oil rig hard but lucrative
CARRIZO SPRINGS, Texas - A few years ago, Frankie Gonzalez was working marginal jobs and running with the wrong crowd in his small South Texas hometown of San Diego.
High-paying oil field jobs come at a price
Allen Fowler, 36, and his wife, Ashley, 21, live in company-provided housing at an RV park in Carrizo Springs.
That other oil boom: Olive oil production takes off in Texas
Photo by Todd Yates, TODD YATES/CALLER-TIMES Buy this photo>> TODD YATES/CALLER-TIMES A grove of olive trees planted in the 1940s off Ocean Drive will be some of the trees featured in a documentary "El Camino Olive Trail" about olive growing in South Texas and northern Mexico, which will air Sunday on PBS station KEDT.