Sometimes googlemaps cooperates, and sometimes it will not. Can't remove the grey alternative routes today; we took the blue route down Highway #83 along the Rio Grande River.
It was a slow drive today. Road construction was frequent. There was a lot of red flashing lights on the road in Roma, TX., police trucks blocking intersections, and traffic backed up. We speculated on the cause - massive drug bust? - big Border Patrol crackdown? - large traffic accident? Nope, just a very, very large funeral.
Speaking of Border Patrol, omnipresent, trucks lurking along side roads at all times and places, as we drove along the Rio Grand River, Nancy spotted a Blimp, three to five thousand feet up (hard to tell without knowing how big it was). Soon, we spotted another one, closer and lower, so you could see the tether, and the sensor platform hanging underneath it. There were a few along the river. Just another surveillance technique; one with an intimidation factor.
Rio Grande City had the highway go right through the centre of town, no shoulders, with parking on both sides of the road. It was a lot like driving through Mexico. Then came the freeway through built-up and busy McAllen/Mission/Pharr/etc., 8 lanes, and with a stiff cross-wind. The land become lower and lower, the water in the ditches higher and higher. We pulled into Breeze Lake Campground in Brownsville around 1:30 pm, after being on the road since 7am. Nice to get back into palm trees and lush, lush, greenery. It was close to 30 C today, with a high humidity, a nice change after all the time in the desert. Also nice to get back to some working wi-fi. We landed and relaxed.
329 Km. today
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