February 10, 2018 The World Birding Center is a series of nine Rio Grande Valley parks and preserves designed to protect wildlife habitat and increase the understanding of birds and wildlife. Estero Llano Grande has 230 acres of wetlands, woodlands and thorn scrub and is the geographic center of the Read more…
January 30, 2018 You might remember that we had been unable to find a geocache practically on the US border with Mexico. Dave kept an eye on activity posted about that cache and noticed that someone who had found it since we had looked suggested that the find should be Read more…
January 30, 2018 Our favorite exhibit from this museum is a MAN, a German Machinefabrik Ausberg Nerenberg, reportedly built for Porfirio Díaz who served seven terms as Mexico’s president between 1876 and 1911. The car was hidden in a secret room behind a brick wall in 1911. Decades later, a Read more…
January 29, 2018 The Marine Military Academy in Harlingen, Texas, a college preparatory academy based on the traditions and ideals of the United States Marine Corps, is home to the original plaster model of the Marine Corps War Memorial, which pictures six marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mt. Suribachi Read more…
January 20, 2018 Port Isabel Historical Museum The building that houses the Port Isabel Historical Museum was built in 1899. Charles Champion operated a dry goods store on the first floor and lived on the second floor with his family. Jose Morelos painted a variety of fish from the nearby Read more…
January 18, 2018 A quinta is a country house, villa or estate and Mazatlan is the Mexican city that inspired the builders of the house, Marcia Jamieson and Jason Chilton Matthews. An ancient Indian translation of Mazatlan is “Land of the Deer”. The house was built in the late 1930’s Read more…
January 14, 2018 The Spanish explorer Alonso Álvarez de Pineda visited the area in 1519. By 1700 Spain had established control and the area where the lighthouse is now located became the headquarters of a large Mexican ranch. In 1846, when hostilities between the United States and Mexico appeared likely, General Read more…