Port of Brownsville Tour

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Port of Isabell Light House.
On our tour boat. Didn’t see anyone else going out on the front of the boat.
Took this picture from the front of our tour boat looking back. Kinda hard to do without holding on to something.
The bridge to South Padre Island.
They have a door to the Port of Brownsville. I guess you can’t get it without your FOB!
Bird sanctuary island. No people allowed.
Another picture of the bird sanctuary island. You can see the birds.
Dry docked shrimp boat being worked on.
Docked shrimp boats. This is shrimp season but diesel fuel to too costly for the boats to to go out and fish. Our guide said it costs about $75,000 to fill the fuel tanks!
Ship waiting to be demo’d. Recycling ships is a big business in Brownsville.
This will be SpaceX’s sea going mobile launch platform. Starbase is just a few miles from here. I could see the Starships, the launch pad and buildings but they were too far off for pictures.
Construction of an off-shore drilling platform.
This is a sea going barge. It is designed to be pushed or pulled by a tug boat in open waters. If the need arises, the tug boat can switch from pushing to pulling the barge in open waters.
Another picture of the barge.

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Workout Room

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Started going to the workout room about 2 weeks ago. Go most days for about 45 minutes. There are a couple of treadmills, dumbbells (not including me), bicycle machine, stair machine and a few other benches for exercising.

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New Year, New Adventure – 12-28-23

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Well, a new year of travel begins. We started our travels one year ago today. We closed on the sale of our house and headed south on December 28, 2022. Our first night stop was at Ray Roberts Lake State Park just east of Sanger, TX. We drove 21,798 miles this first year.

We left Guthrie, OK yesterday, December 27th. We are staying at the same place we did last year, Ray Roberts Lake State Park. We are 4 spots away from our spot last year. We are heading back to south Texas. Should be there on January 1, 2024. We will be staying in Mission, TX at Canyon Lake RV Resort. This is west of McAllen, TX. Unless things change, we will be there through March.

As of today, we have no plans after Mission, TX. We’ll see!

Ray Roberts Lake State Park site 74. Had a little problem with one of our slide outs when we were packing up to leave. Not too big of a problem, just had to reset the controller. Probably set too long without being used.

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Mall of America – 9/21

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Mall of America – Bloomington, MN. Had to go there once. Wasn’t busy during the week so parking and traffic weren’t bad.
Amusement park inside, roller coaster and all.
Aquarium at Mall of America – Tori inside a display bubble. I couldn’t crawl inside!
A walk through aquarium. I’m not too fond of being surrounded by water.

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Spam Museum – Austin, Mn 9/12

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Just in case you didn’t know, there is a Spam Museum in Austin, MN. Austin is also the home of Hormel Foods.
Corn and pigs. Very popular around here.
Everything you ever wanted to know about Spam.
Spam recipes. Spam at every meal of the day.
I’ll let this speak for itself.
Spam(grease) powered diesel motorcycle.
Flavors not seen in Oklahoma. Tocino is only sold in the Philippines and the Spam museum store.

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