Port Aransas to Mission TX

We departed Port A on Feb 28, drove through Corpus Christi to the Rio Grande Valley to Mission, a border town.  Our RV park is approx only 1 km from the Mexican border, near the Bentsen Palm state park and the World Birding Center.  Terry is in heaven, he has spotted 14 new birds on his life list in just the 2 days that we have been here.



The RV park is one of the nicest that we have stayed in, concrete drives and patios,  surrounded by grassy areas and tons of landscaping.  Mike loves the heated pool and hot tub, nice shaded areas for me to sit read while he swims.   Sampson loves the dog park, it has a palapa in the center for all the humans to sit at while all the dogs play together,  also a dog agility course we have been trying to get Sampson to go through!  Everyone at the dog park was thrilled to see Mike, a child, that could throw balls for their dogs :)

We have met quite a few of the other Winter Texans, most are from Canada!  Ontario has the largest number of RV's here,  Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Manitoba, Alberta and even other BC'ers!

I heard a few of the RV park residents saying that there were 15 "illegals" found in the RV park last night hiding under some of the RV's..Yikes!   The swim across the Rio Grande River right beside us and then try to sneak into the USA but the border patrol is watching carefully for them!


The weather here has been great,  today was 86 F which converts to 30 C!  I see that our family and friends are having a very long winter back home so I guess that we picked a good year to leave!

leaving the Gulf of Mexico, 

our last glimpse of ocean until we hit the west coast in a few months

welcome to Mission Texas!

our campsite at Bentsen Palm RV Resort, 

we are up against a fence where the RV sites organic gardens are

Sampson is all tuckered out after a long day at the dog park!