On our last
full day in Brownsville, we jumped into the truck and headed for
the Mexican bridge next to Fort Brown. We stopped to enjoy the
resaca next to the Fort which is actually Texas University's South most Collage. A resaca is a somewhat recent invention
created after the last major flooding in Brownsville. It is a
small dug out area which is filled with water. It is emptied just
before hurricanes and large storms so that it will catch the
water run off and prevent flooding.
From the resaca we drove around the corner to a
secure parking lot, left the truck and walked the two blocks to
the pedestrian bridge over the Rio Grande and into Matamoros
Mexico. The price was 25 cents. We walked over to the most
popular spot within a mile of the bridge. Garcia's. This large
department store with pharmacy and restaurant is the Yankee
shopping and meeting place. Choosing not to take the standard
way, we hopped a mini-bus and rode down to the market. We had been warned that
this area was heavily inundated with pickpockets, purse snachers
and beggars, but we found little threat and only a couple of very
well dressed, polite little children who periodically would stop
and ask for money. Laura, who was enjoying the beginning of a
chocolate covered frozen banana was an easy victim as a charming
youngster with big brown eyes and a twinkling smile talked her
out of it, last being seen running through the plaza with his
newly acquired delight.
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