Well here we are in the “valley” and it is going to be a cool rainy week, with highs in the mid 60 s and lows in the 50s.

This entire area that we are in is referred to as the Rio Grande Valley. Let me tell you a little about this so-called valley. If this part of the Rio Grande was in our area it would be called a creek, and to have a valley you need a low spot with high spots. Not here! This area is as flat as a pool table.

English is the third language here. The first is Spanish and 10 of the 13 TV stations here are in Spanish. Bud went to the Ace hardware to get some plumbing supplies for his motor home and they had to find someone to speak English to help him. Mexico doesn’t know that it lost this part of the U.S to Sam Houston. . When we were in the Cancun and Puerto Vallarta Mexico more people spoke English then the people in south Texas. In a lot of ways the “valley” is more like Mexico than some parts of Mexico that we have been in.
In this RV resort French is the second language. I think half the province of Quebec is in this park. If you speak English you are in a very small minority.

While it is cool and rainy and not very good pool time, we will go exploring and check out some things in the area other than the local Wal-mart, One place that we want to check out is a county park on the Laguna Madre (a bay this side of Padre Is.). When our month is up here Feb. 10th we might move the 15 miles to the county park for a while.


H.