Winter Texan App Day Mar 21 90 deg

Every year in Progresso they have Winter Texan Appreciation Day. They block off the main street for about 6 or 8 blocks and bring their wares , food , music and margaritas to the middle of the street. This is the first sign you see when you came into Mexico.


Harold and I at the sign.

These are our friends Al and Alice Rohr. We started riding Motorcycles with them back in 1985.

This is one of the stages they had set up under a tent. The back of my head is always a good picture.

Some of the young senoritas are very pretty as Al and Harold are checking out.

Some of the crowd!!

This young lady spent a lot of time getting into costume for the day.

More attractive young ladies.

This is a hotel on main street. You could even get a 15 % discount.

This was the Progesso Plaza bar. They had just opened a casino today. They were all slot machines with video blackjack. The most you could bet was 50 cents. They brought out a group of dancers all dressed in native garb.

Al and Alice can cut a mean rug.

This little boy was riding the mechanical bull. I tried to get Harold to do it but he was not cooperating.

A big mural in this belly-belly bar.

After a few Margaritas.

Me too!

Then we were off to Fat Daddy's barbecue for dinner. Had a really fun day.

South Padre Island Fishing trip march17 85 deg

We are getting ready for our bay fishing trip. Four hours on the bay and we went out the coast of the island on this boat.


When we come back this is where we will hang all our fish for pictures.

Luxury hotels in South Padre Island. They are all full right now for spring break.

My Jerry beads!! Guess what I didn't do to get them!

My first fish on this trip. They are sheepshead (I don't know why)

Harold isn't happy since they dropped his first fish back in the water.

When we headed back in everyone pulled their stringer on board. There were about 25 people on board and each person was allowed 5 fish limit. when we would pass another fishing boat everyone had to pick up their string to show the others and shout as loud as we could.

This family was Mom, Dad, Son and Daughter, they had 20 fish and had to have a wheelbarrow to carry them around in.

Everyone had a great time and we went back early. They called it a sheepshead slam

We are counting the days now on Saturday we will go to Progresso for Winter Texan Appreciation day, then leave on Tuesday March 23rd. See you all soon!

Old Guerro March 10 85 degrees

This was another early day for us. We had to catch the bus at the Best Western Hotel in the next city over. So we had to leave the park by 6 am. We crossed the border at Rio Grande City into Cuidad Camargo. This was our first greeting. There was no trouble at this time, I think it is a show of force.

This cemetery is in the city of Miguel Aleman . They say that from April 1st until November 1 they use nothing but artificial flowers on the graves. The rest of the year beginning with the Day of the Dead, they have live flowers. I am assuming the fresh flowers would wilt too fast in the summer heat.

This family plot cost around 30 thousand dollars. One dollar right now is 14.5 pesos in Mexico.

We continued to El Campanario, it is a restaurant owned by the tour company, Viva Mexico.

This is a boot-making factory where they make boots out of shark, eel, ostrich, kangaroo, alligator,snake and lots of other animal skins. You could custom order and they will ship or you can take them right then. Providing of course that they fit. This picture was upstairs where the do all of the sewing. They told us the temperature in this room in the summer time can be to 130 degrees.

This is the Mexican power plant on the Rio Grande river at Falcon dam. This picture is also out of order.

They said they have to be 18 to work here. We all felt he was no more than 15 or 16. He sews the pull tabs for boots.

Eel skin boots.

The front of the boot shop.

This is at Falcon dam. Harold's right foot is in the USA and his left foot is in Mexico.

This wall was in the town of New Guerrero. This wall was over a mile long and you wouldn't believe is made out of old battery cases.

More wall.

Delco battery cases. Now do you thinks we could gather old cases for something like this???

The old Guerrero was a town that was founded in 1750. It was a prosperous village on the Rio Grande rive when in 1953 Falcon dam was built.Officials warned the people in town that in about 10 years there would be enough water to flood and they would need to move. As luck would have it a Hurricane hit the area and filled the lake in 1954 The city remained underwater until recent years until it emerged again as a result of severe drought in Northern Mexico and south Texas.



These are arches as you enter the town.

Walk along this path to the lake.

This was the Hotel.

An armadillo that is stuck in the tree.

Another view of the hotel.

The church still remains in about 4 ft. of water.

A goat herd was running loose in town.

This is a building that was put together with rocks and stones and still standing after all this time.

One of the main streets.

A house in the town.

Look at the stone walls that are still standing

This was their old cemetery. There was another cemetery across the road that was for the wealthy with big rock walls around it. When the town flooded they were given the opportunity to move the graves. The problem was that was very expensive and not an option for some.

There were a lot of graves here.

More graves.

The iron works on some of the graves came from Canton Iron Works in Canton, Ohio. You know that had to be expensive in the late 1900's.

This grave belonged to a person who was a woodworking or skilled laborer as indicated by the marble slab on the tower.

This was the same type of headstone.

Our lunch consisted of sandwiches, fruit and Margaritas. It was served in this little shed and we stood around under the snake skin

We returned to the same restaurant for dinner, chicken fried steak, rice, potatoes and bread. Can you say carbohydrates??? And free Margaritas

We stopped at an organic farm. They had 26 acres of greenhouses.


This is the computer control room where they determined when to water, fertilize and how much.

This is a very un-flattering picture but you can tell I was exhausted. We got home at 9 pm. It was a very long day but well worth it. ZZZZZZZZ.