Sheraton Ambassador Hotel And Towers Monterrey

... at the brokers at 10 am. Because we had slept in the Flying J parking lot it was unsafe to let the girls out anywhere so they never got out at all after pulling out of Yale at 11 pm on the 19th. I looked out the window and the vet had come and sealed the trailer already. Last chance to walk gone. :(

So, once Juan arrived we hooked up and headed out. 20 minutes later it was pitch black and ...

... bit after that I helped mamaw clean the motor home. After that I played water volleyball. At 8:30 I took mamaw on a long ride in the golf cart. When we got back I watched the rest of Harry Potter! I don't think we are ready to leave yet. Maybe by tomorrow afternoon.

... grid like US streets, and there was no central plaza area, just a large parking structure. I asked my host later if there was a good place around to go hiking or walking, and he suggested a bird sanctuary 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 ...

... but I don't think it worked well. When we went out to dinner, 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 didn't even see any shops of interest. Major thunderstorm at night, starting around 3am.

Had to drive to San Jose to fly to Texas ... and the airline tickets were still over $800. The San Jose airport was a mess with construction; ugh. Flight to Houston was on time, which was amazing, considering the thunderstorms which were reported in the area. We had an hour layover in Houston, which was the perfect amount of ...

... square steel tubing is inserted on top of that. In some places, the wall is being built 3 miles from Mexico. No one is sure how that will impede Texans that own land on that side of the fence, however. For example, some wildlife sanctuaries have biking/walking trails over there - how will visitors go back and forth? · Huge warehouses covering an entire city block in McAllen, TX that are used to store products manufactured in Mexico or Central America prior to being ...

... Brownsville, TX it's 85-90, humid & sunny - we're staying for a month. Along the way we observed: · The Dept. of Homeland Security is building a concrete & steel fence along the Rio Grande River to curb drug smuggling and border jumpers. A 6" square tubing (spaced 4" apart) is inserted into a 7" tubing in a 5' high jersey barrier. The 16 ft high steel tubes will not be welded together because if there was anything placed horizontally, it would act as a ladder -instead, they ...

Playing a little catch-up here because it's taken awhile to mfigure pout this blog business. Will try to re-cap the trip to date - complete with adventures - for any who might be interested. After winterizing and then abandoning the Alpenlite 5th Wheel in frigid Bernallio, NM; with the Work & Play toy hauler hitched to "Big Green", we made the roughly 1,000 mile trip to south Texas. After two days of ...

... speaks Spanish and a little bit of English. The French guy speaks French and a little bit of Spanish and English. That's a lot of languages. I think by the end of the semester I will probably know a lot more about a lot of different cultures, which is a great thing. In addition to my five academic classes, I am taking a rock climbing class and will be playing intramural basketball. I'm also ...

... and my lack of spanish (even after the lessons) kept me quietish and to one side). However, donīt think I begrudge it at all. Talking to Baudelio, this was an opportunity in his eyes for him to give some love and fun to kids who have no parents, who perhaps have been abused by their parents. When I think about how much of a difference the love of my mum and dad has made - well it was great to see the kids enjoying themselves and relaxing. On Friday, a new i-to-i volunteer arrived ...