North Padre

Welcome family, friends, and strangers all around the world! Well... you only live once! And now is the time to get out there and chase the dream! Mariela and I left Seattle on October 6th, 2006 to go and live this dream and chase the wind wherever it ...

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... ;was a very good reason to go to Corpus Christi. I've always wanted to go to Corpus Christi since its supposedly known as "North Padre" and since I've been to South Padre and was pretty much satisfied with the beaches there, I assumed that this one was ...

... of cutthroats, brigands and marauders on the Spanish Main, will dress in period costume and provide entertainment. For accommodations, South Padre offers a Radisson resort, the Bahia Mar resort, a Sheraton hotel, a La Quinta hotel, the La Copa Inn ...

Pictures for this entry can be found at http://philippschonger.spaces.live.com/photos/  Where's the sun? South Padre Island Kiting report .... Well.. it's howling outside .... wow... maybe we're not used to this compared to the mellow rain and ...

We left mercedes on Monday and spend a couple nights on South Padre Island. We visited with our friend, Mary Ann, who we met in 2002 the first time we went to South Padre Island. She was an RVer then too and now she lives and works on the ...

... is the one that allows me to get to know the locals. At 2 AM we arrived in Maasin, 30 minutes from Padre Burgos and no transport, but a nice American from north California who leaves in Burgos  gave me  a ride, for free, we went to find a room ...

... area covers 270 sq km and includes the sites of over 70 former sugar mills. After leaving the city, i went north , passing trough Gaspar, Esmeralda ( were i had an unbelievable feeling of wellness due to the quietness of the village , the ...

... terrible, but it isn't what we are looking for.  Saturday we departed South Padre Island heading to Corpus Christi and North Padre Island.  The weather has improved, but the weather forecasters are expecting yet another front to be coming in. ...

Camped out at the beach for the ...

The solar panels are working. We parked at the end of the road on South Padre Island (SPI) on Wednesday, we haven't started the generator as of Monday. It has been great to stay here by the beach. Today we went to town to wash the MH, the windows were ...

... 18th,  I got a little session on my 18m but not much more so Mariela and I decided to head 3 hours south to South Padre Island, Texas! Yahooooooooo......! We got here right at Sunset and it looks like that's the place we'll stay much longer.  We ...

... fishermen who have been lost at sea.  I headed north and back to the condo for a drink of water.  Then continued north to the convention center (love that Wyland mural of the killer whales),  Went by the new Birding and Nature Center - ...

... we kept trying to tell them we did not want to go there but wanted to just skirt around the outside perimeter to get further North. We finally got understood and were on our way. There were more VW bay window Mex buses in this area than I could believe ...

... .  We drove all the way to the Manisfield cut.  That is a channel they dug to get into manisfield.  That is how north and south Padre island was made.  It is a 28 mile drive on the beach..  There is no road but the sand is hard ...

... we came (Gil doesn't do "touristy stuff"), so Roger & I decided to go today before our time here is over.  Padre Island (North & South) is the world's longest barrier island.  On the Luganu Madre side of the island is the Birding & ...

... Many of my clients are immigrants and their histories make me feel very sad. Separated families by the deportations, how the North American laws are applied differently to undocumented immigrant and American citizen, the way in which children of ...