seemed preposterous prediction of Jules Verne, in the spring of 1963: From Tenerife to La Gomera in 23 minutes! And who could not undergo the adventure when we had been sailing for seven and eleven hours from our lantern Sea to the port of San Sebastian? Thinking about that sort of battle cry of "luck, vision, and the bull" we entered into the fragile but steady structure of an aircraft type "Cherokee Six", who was riding Alfonso Cabello, a true pioneer of aviation Gomera, and that he, together with his companion Ruiz, who first managed to land with a these "dragonflies", at the end of the decade of 50 of the last century, in the small airfield located in the town of Columbus called "The Wallow". the winds were favorable visibility in Los Rodeos, excellent, climate, nice. From five thousand feet above our northern coast seemed bordered by multicolored foam watermarks. El Puerto de la Cruz was ambitious model and looked Teide First Communion dress. Punta de Teno, which looked doomed his recollection by the appearance of asphalt for spinning was the reference to "La Traviesa" arm of the sea feared by sailors and airmen ...
the ancient Torre del Conde, at our feet. Then, dryness, loneliness, the odd barge taking out of the clear waters of the sacrificial living. Then Tecina Knoll, "the miracle of the Rodriguez Lopez, with greenery and delivered bucolic oasis where lush Indian laurels seemed to shade and shelter to a number of tomato plants, banana trees and the like. The "Cherokee Six" aligns with the small strip of space enabled, and puts his tripod wheels on the track "The Wallow" presumptuous international Beacon fry. In the control tower is Lilliputian Simancas Megolla Jesus "Sito", a "terrain" in the multi-faceted communications tasks, which for our impeccable journey of half an hour, we had the power of wind, isobars and clusters.
The return to that paradise plant responded by Tecina had to be done, of course, by land. In a jeep, which only the expert hands of Alfonso Sanchez was able to master, Dante traveled byways, winding steeply up mountains, where the smallest negligence would have had unpleasant consequences. But Alfonso, on the wheel, he was a Fangio.
There in Tecina, we begin to know, through various channels, the subtle, unreachable generosity of Don Conrado Rodríguez López because, as noted on other occasions, was a character d
and those who gave and hid her hand under a select modesty. Sought, by all means, hide the good he did, imitating the Nile, which conceals its source. He belonged to that breed of committed and hardworking; of entrepreneurs born and assets, all of them close for good luck, a common core of genealogical branches under the sign of the capacity and understanding. Was visible and invisible, anonymous resounding, energetic and kind. There, on that island as mourned as abandoned, in those parched land that could be irrigated with tears so many others, Don Conrad, with his brother, Don Alvaro, a tandem almost legend, a farmer realized that standing was higher than a courtier on his knees and rocks and cliffs that those could turn into fertility and shelter.
And the island of La Gomera, which by allying with the pure random we had many hours of epic sea voyage from the capital, was changing its complexion by ocher face of hope for emeralds nuclei harboring another combination that has not been definitely hope to remember: the banana and tomato, at that time synonyms and foreign exchange income, jobs, wages and secure livelihood.
Don Alvaro Rodríguez López, who did not have the opportunity to know, died in 1958 and his remains rest
, as was always his desire, in the secluded beach church of Santiago. His name is on a street of Santa Cruz between Avenida Tres de Mayo and the Aurea Díaz Flores. Eighteen years later, Mr. Conrad was born for death. And all, at that time, guess he was going immediately to hug his soul brother, who had shared so many waves at the height of the "Red Mountain", between the frames of that unforgettable "Rodríguez López Fleet" composed, among other ships, by the "San Juan", "Santa Elena", "Santa Rosa de Lima", " Isora, "Adeje", "Santa Maria Martyr", "Sauzal", "St. Ursula", "San Juan de Nepomuceno" ... Or the ineffable "Sancho II", which we enjoy and suffer in their particular facilities immersed in salty environments, strong winds and vagaries sui generis, perfectly controlled by Don Rafael Hernandez The popular pattern that airy and sailor "Sancho II". One veteran pattern for coastal and inter-winder and other foams, one day he told us with that unmistakable deep voice that always accompanied 
: "The sea never afraid. And look who we have gone through hell, those trips to Ceuta, drums loaded with eight liters of gasoline and the boat walk three miles ... "And in that meeting in the Hereafter, Don Alvaro, Don Conrad, characters history-agriculture, industry, shipping and aviation, "remember those days without electricity, no telephone, only telegrams, that singular "boom" in the much-missed Tapahuga pier, near the bountiful Tecina that even a shiny brewing and livestock.
Tapahuga, what name so loud and evocative! At the dawn of the 30 of the last century, rubber trees in coastal water was working with the waist, on the beaches, for lack of spring, and then to paddle from the beach to the boat, the wind and tide, where the custom became titanic effort that simple child's play. And in the aforementioned
Beyond, both also remind her of the salted-in factories
Alcalá and Playa Santiago, where the staff was as large as the fruits canned sea which unceasingly, the ingenious davits of La Gomera, a type of wells that collected and deposited all kinds of people and objects, the "Jila, Jila" seats based on crossed arms to reach the beach after fight, as noted, with boldness, with "jali", a real nuisance docking. And it would be in their minds that intellectual Tecina, festive, musical and military, with camels carrying the burdens illustrious Ramón Gil-Roldán, "Crosita" Carmelo Cabral, Garcia-Escámez ... then, in a bright and spacious Victorian villa, each gave free rein to their respective side. And so it was easy to imagine the guitarist and composer Cabral giving a sneak preview of Canarian folk music he had recorded the first with the signature "Odeon" and then in "His Master's Voice." Or Diego Crosa and Costa, draftsman, watercolorist, playwright and poet who, as such, worked in the modernist magazine "Castalia" and made famous the pseudonym "Crosita" in the festive "Ripios" appeared in the newspaper of Santa Cruz "The Press ", directed by its founder, Leoncio Rodríguez. And maybe "Crosita" relaxed those gatherings had issued its most popular song, "When a canary want / to who knows how to love / so much we want dies 
r / and also wants dead. " And finally, we imagine Ramón Gil-Roldán and Martin, brilliant lawyer and writer, spreading that warmth, irony and wit that always characterized him, between his great and close friends, among whom was, of course, the captain-general García-Escámez, that would leave indelible memories among the people of Tenerife, who praised its seriousness, competence and honesty. Don Conrado Rodríguez López, who did have the good fortune to know and distinguish enjoyed a lifetime to learn to die. And the Grim Reaper visited him in bed without pain, like a breeze, though he would have preferred he breathed his last stand, as was a therapeutic advance in teaching the ride, which lavished and looked up to days before his death, with this elegant and Pulco erguidez
ritud, with those steps firm, unperturbed cadence, which were becoming hesitant and nervous when he watched a youth "disheveled and supine, with meandering gait, vision is always affected his mind so as a Christian conservative, not just the of chest beating, social fellowship, or gilt-edged book, but daily visits to lonely "Morenita" with which talked every evening in our Villa Mariana before returning to one of its most entrenched passions, home, the other person lives in his preference was the work, effort and perseverance, and a very special way, your generosity unreachable , who lavished here and there, from his time in Madrid as a student in the field of civil engineer, and later, in full maturity, which is struggling to forget what he did for charity, to go to where less thought with one hand always anonymous, leaving trails of countless noble and selfless heart, prone to mood 
putting the decorum of the utility and interest virtues explained with pragmatic firmness and perseverance to all who had the opportunity to hear their exemplary verb, good note taking their children, Álvaro and Conrado Rodriguez-Lopez and Braun, who, in various aspects, I have equally fortunate to meet and talk. ANTONIO PEREZ SALGADO, PUBLISHED IN THE PRESS DAY (SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE), 31/10/2009
Caption # 1 Don Conrado Rodríguez López
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In izquieda, Don Alvaro Rodríguez López, with his brother, Conrad, characters history in agriculture, industry, shipping and aviation.
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Tribute, Tecina, Carmelo Cabral, in the center of the photo, surrounded by brothers Heliodorus Adalberto and Conrado Rodríguez López and Sebastian Castro Díaz, Domingo Cabrera Cruz and Santiago Sabina Corona, among others Caption
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Tecina cattle
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Year 1940. Overview of the fish factory Alcala (Tenerife)
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"Santa Maria Martyr", the "Fleet Rodríguez López"
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Davits La Gomera
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Carmelo Cabral
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Diego Crosa and Costa "C
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