Wednesday, January 9, 2013

McAllen Travel Show

 

Today our friends Wes and Jude took us to McAllen to the Travel Show. The Travel Show was held in the new Convention Centre which was a massive building surrounded on each side by arches, palm trees and lots of shrubs. As you can see from the picture on the left, there was even a waterfall and large pond.

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Inside the Centre there  was a very wide selection of booths set up that represented  much of the local  area and many of the nearby states. We picked up a lot  of information  about things to see and do at various places and nearly all of the booths gave us free stuff which consisted of everything from fridge magnets to sunglasses. We also managed to pick up some coupon books.

They even had a mermaid there who looked like she was having a whole lot of fun playing the role. It brought a lot of attention to the booth behind her that was promoting all sorts of cruises and fishing expeditions.

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There was a  Mexican Artisan Expo happening there also  and there were rows of tables set up displaying many different types of art from Mexican artists that were both local and from other states. I picked up a couple of things for my friends and a pair of earrings for myself. Some of the bead work and needle work was very beautiful. They also had demonstrations where we watched people make pictures and bookmarks out of small colored straws that were some kind of grain or grass.

On display at the far end of the room were many travel trailers and motor homes. We toured them all and decided that any of them would do us quite nicely if they happened to be giving them away. Unfortunately, they were for display only so we had to leave without one. We did do some dreaming about what it would be like to have one. There certainly was lots of room in them. Some of them had three slide-outs and came complete with  a fireplace.

 

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I think a person could live very comfortably in most of the ones we looked at. They ranged in price from about $32,000 for a trailer to $125,000 for the largest motorhome.

Stay warm.

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