McAllen
Travel Blogs from McAllen, United States
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Freer Texas and Hdalgo
Stayed in Hidalgo preparing to cross the border - more details, photos and story to come ...
The Bookmobile and Pastors for Peace
... the rest of the Pastors for Peace Caravan and the other caravanistas. We congregated at the Our Savior Lutheran Church in McAllen Texas. The church's physical setup adequately met the group's needs. The parking lot was big enough for all the ...
Arriving in McAllen again
... until close to 7. About 8 we began to walk across the bridge over the Río Grande, the border between Mexico and the United States. We chanted the entire way. "Cuba sí. Bloqueo no" (Cuba yes, Blockade no!) and something about the computers. ...
"Imma bee Imma bee Imma Imma Imma bee!"
So today was fun. I went with Monica to get tickets for the Hockey game, and then we ate at some Shrimp place. It was ok.. I obviously didn't get shrimp, or any other fishy thing for that matter! lol. The weather was nice so we ate ...
Go Bees Go!
So tonight was another hockey game that started at 7:30. I didn't get there until a little after 8pm because I don't get off work until 7 and I had to go let Kubby out and change clothes. Monica met me at the door to give me my ...
Mexico on the horizon
... one. They called another dealer and they have it but were closing. We hope to get one cut before we leave tomorrow. We headed out to McAllen (where the other dealer is located) and got a room at the Days Inn. It has a huge pool and we had it all to ...
Anti-Valentine's Party
... " which I thought was not very funny! Nah it was funny and quite strange too. After the party we decided to go downtown McAllen. I drove us all downtown, lol packed like 7 people in my car to drive 2 blocks, awesome. Then we went to this ...
Wino's!!
So today was an eventful day. I went and ran some errands in the morning and got a lot accomplished.. finally! Then I met Monica and Cory at a place called "Water to Wine." It was an awesome little winery place, that is actually right ...
Peter Piper Picked a peck of Pickled Peppers...
So today was a real laid back kind of day. We were going to BBQ and invite Glenn (because that was in part of the pact that Cory and Glen made on Thursday) buuuttt Cory swears she doesn't have Glenn's phone number (even though i saw her save it so ...
A close call getting home
... about 20 miles away. But most of the time, it's too unpleasant out to hike, anyway. In the afternoon, I reached the McAllen airport an hour before flight time, and everything was on time. As we neared departure time, we heard the flight was delayed ...
Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!
Welllll today for lunch I ate at the park with some coworkers, and found out some exciting news! :) (that I can't share because it's a seceret!) After work I met Monica and her friend Myra at Buffalo Wild Wings for dinner. ...
Congrats Monica!!!
So tonight a few coworkers and I went out to a restaurant called Cheddar's in order to celebrate Monica's acceptance into her Master Program to become an SLP. It was a really good time, Brent, Cory, Aaron and Vanessa, and Linda (coworker) and ...
Departure city
A 10 day backpacking trip to the mitical Turkey. The departure city is McAllen, Texas, connecting in Houston, Amsterdam and finally in ...
What a Night!
So today was quite interesting. I went to work at 9:30 (was going to go in earlier but I didn't feel like getting up). I went in today bcause I had a TON of paperwork to do from the week and there was no way I was going to get all caught up ...
To the borderlands of Texas
... a cup of coffee. Did some people watching: particularly liked the guy with the mohawk, carrying a Nordstrom's suit bag. Flight to McAllen was also on time. A much larger plane than we expected (737-800), in fact, larger than the plane from San Jose to ...
Exhausted
Well overall today was ok. I made it through work, although I was frustrated with my schedule changing and everyone knowing about it before me and then them yelling at me because I'm not doing this when I think I have a patient.. it was ...
First Vipers Game
So today I was obviously exhausted because I had stayed out way to late and the whole daylight savings thing. When I went to get Kubby I didn't do much but sit at Monica's house ha. I gathered some of my stuff (left some of it over there on ...
Allergic to the Valley!!??
So I made it to the doctor this morning.. it was waay crowded. I guess because most of the doctor's and PA's were off last week for Spring Break. I was there from 7:30am until 10:45am. It was forever! I will tell you though, the ...
"I love lamp"
Last night was an interesting night. I went and ate lunch with Cory and Monica at a restaurant called the Republic. It was good, I had never been. Interestng place, you walk in and you think it's going to be all fancy, and then you sit ...
FINAL WEEK TO PLAN
Austin is in Arkansas at music camp. Talked to him last night to wish a happy 16th birthday. Austin flies from k.c. to atlanta to l.a. then sydney. I will meet up with him in L.A.. We have all of our plane reservations plus our camper ...
The humidity breaks
... , to Costa Messa, the humidity had broken, and it was actually fairly pleasant. Tried to find the new downtown ... but no luck. McAllen is just flat, streets in grids, and endless big-box strip malls. Except for Furr's Buffet, a ridiculou name, I ...
The Chuckettes!
So today was pretty awesome! I went over to Monica's late in the afternoon and I laid out by the pool. It was a little chilly because of the wind blowing and if the sun was behind clouds.. but when the sun came out the wind was perfect! ...
Technology.. wow
Well I had to be on the phone with Spring for about an hour or more troubleshooting my phone.. it never did connect to the network and we endd up having to restart the thing. Ah well it works awesome now and I really love it. I'm busy downloading ...
Mc Nasty Food
We arrived in McAllen around 3pm. We didn't have to be at the venue till 6, so I put on my bathing suit and laid out by the pool with a good book. ("Lost" by Gregory Macguire - thanks Jen!) It was too cool to get in the water, but it was nice ...
A New Year
An easy write. Happy New Years to all. I was repeating a simple phrasing over the past come-odd weeks, "A New Year, A New Place." That is the case. No worries. I used an engine shop when I was living in Fort Worth that was based out of Dallas and as far ...
Mardi Gras?
... Mardi Gras isn't a huge deal down here, Monica and Cory decided to appease me by going to have a couple drinks in downtown McAllen. It also helped that the Vintage Room (which is the bar we went to) was having complimentary hurricanes from like ...
Part 2 of the Fashion Lesson
Today has actually been a productive day. I had my doubts when I woke up this morning, lol I woke up to Kubby laying on my arm (and my arm hurting like crazy!) He snuck up on my bed and was cuddling with me like a little kid does, it was real ...
The Move to Texas
... live. The Rio Grande Valley is an interesting place. It's basically one big city, but it's divided into like 4 cities, Pharr, McAllen, Edinburg, and Mission. The streets are continuous through the cities and so you're on a road and you could pass through ...
Drama!!! lol
So tonight I went out to the dog park and then decided to head out to Evera's to hang out with a Jeremy and Glenn, and it is also where Jeremy's pseudo-g/f and my coworker has a part time job. Well it took me quite a bit to actually work my way up ...
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