Our Mexican Odyssey began in Brownsville, TX
Trip Start
Jan 04, 2008
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Trip End
Apr 01, 2008
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Brownsville,
Texas,
United States
Friday, January 4, 2008
Winter Haven Dec 2007
Last year Terry participated with others playing golf and pool as well as fishing. He even won several weekly events and also came in second for the mixed (2 ladies a& 2 men per team) pool tournament for the season. I don't play golf at all and very little of pool, so I mostly did some arts'n'crafts and some sewing, which weren't as much fun.
However, this year we re-connected with a couple. Jan and John Burgoin, whom we had met up at Mammoth Caves in Kentucky in the Fall of 2006. They were really the ones who got us interested in Brownsville in the first place. They are from Ontario, Canada and have been spending their winters at Autumn Acres Park in Brownsville for the last 7 years.
They used to travel back and forth in their 5th wheel, but last year they bought a nice 2 bedroom park model home in Autumn Acres, so they left the big 5th wheel in Ontario and traveled down with a small truck camper.
Anyway, we re-connected with them this year and had some really fun times together. John and Terry played golf and bridge together and Jan and some of her girl friends and I would go to Old Downtown Brownsville and also walk (I road my electric scooter) across the border into Matamoros, Mexico. We'd just have fun browsing the shops, maybe buying some little things and having fun lunches at Garcia's, which is a large famous restaurant, bar and shop just over the border. We also got to know a lot of their friends at Autumn Acres, in particular, Shirley and Gary Maurstad, also from Ontario.
The six of us would do a potluck dinner, then play cards, a version of Canasta called Hand & Foot. This is a game that I like and have played versions of it before and including when I lived in Brazil we played a version called 'Buraco' ('Hole', cause you can really get in a hole if things don't go well).
Last year in Brownsville, had been the coldest winter in about 25 years and Terry said we didn´t go far enough south. So this year, we´re going to spend the winter traveling around nice warm Mexico.
It took me several hours, getting ready to start our Mexican travels, to secure and put everything away that we had used during our six weeks at Winter Haven in Brownsville, TX. It's amazing what all accumulates in one form or another.
My 'bedroom'
The front 'living' area of our new RV
Our 'new' RV (that we got after the unfortunate crash of our Monaco Dynasty in Iowa in July 2007), is an Allegro Bus by Tiffin and although it has a slide-out that gives us more 'move-around' area inside, it is also shorter and has far less storage space. We had to do a few modifications to fit our needs (like making a 'bedroom' for me and adding some storage), but we finally got it like we like it.
Terry in our 'dining' room
