Awake: 5:35am Temp 67 sleep 6+30 rain began @ 8:30am
overnight @ Harlingen, Texas.
The weather channel predicts heavier rain here in Harlingen around 3:00pm
to continue for the next few days; right now it’s a drizzle so to avoid
cleaning water off those slides before we travel, I retract them now.
We drive the Suzuki to Roger & Maria’s home, pick up Roger, drive hwy 83
westbound to Weslaco, then mile 3 south to Progreso, park the car & walk
about 150 ft to the Duty Free Liquor Store just north of the Mexican
border. We keep the good prices in mind as we continue to walk across the
covered walkway bridge over the Rio Grande River into Nuevo Progreso,
Mexico. Kathy checks a few pharmacy stores for a good price on cough syrup
with codeine which does not require a prescription in this town. After
comparing prices, she buys 2 small bottles in the event someone over the
holidays could use the codeine to help overcome a bug.
As we stroll down the streets with our umbrellas, ducking in & out of
stores, we pass a restaurant which Roger tells me: “when my wife & I come
down here, this is where we always eat.” Sounds good to us & we ate there
also. Roger was quite right.
Walking back toward the liquor store, we had to cross over the bridge
leaving Mexico (pay 30 cents each), then walk back around to the liquor
store (25 cents each to enter this area), buy some liquor, then cross over
the bridge again into Mexico, walk across the street & over the bridge
leaving Mexico (another 30 cents each), pass through US customs (pay US
Federal Taxes on liquor), then pay Texas State Taxes on each bottle of
liquor. We felt like we were being nickel & dimed to death but: “these
were the best prices yet in our travels.”
The drive back to Harlingen in the rain was fine. Maria was home when we
dropped Roger off so we visited a little before returning to our bus @
4:15pm.
Our lunch was filling so our dinner was sparse: Tomato soup with oyster
crackers.
Watch late movie: “Thief ” with James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson,
James Belushi, etc. Arresting drama about a professional thief; Caan is
excellent as the man with one drive: survival. 1981. You want action, this
one does it right!
High temp? Lights out: 11:40pm
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