Boris

Thx for all the comments.

Woolie, I took the kids up there for some ice cream (good stuff by the way). I figured if I went up there and bought something, they'd let me take as many pics as I wanted and they also let me into the pool area which has an outdoor patio for more pics without a window barrier.

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We went to the Zoo today. Here are some photos I took:

yeah, these are very nice and surely looks like a nice camera.

Looks like the island was packed.

Here are two shots of the Pavillions site, the first from 10-06 and the one I took yesterday.

thx guys, yeah Jeebs, from 1:00 to about 3:00. I was pretty busy.

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In the two hours I was in DT, it changed from partly cloudy, to cloudy and dark to stormy, than my camera's battery went out.

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I think anyone who flys into the Valley to go to SPI is going to rent a car. Once they're at the Island, they are going to want a car to drive around the Island.

So thinking about this again, I think a connection to SPI would probably be the last thing to be considered.

The first prong I think would be viable would be between Mission and Alamo (This would take it between Mission, McAllen, Pharr, San Juan and Alamo) and perhaps a spur going up to Edinburg.

A Second prong would work well between Harlingen and Brownsville.

But, I don't think it would be economically viable to fill in the gap between Harlingen and Alamo.

Also, I think the two prongs should start at the major border crossings in each section. It would be the visitors from Matamoros and Reynosa who would be using this type of transportation the most.

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I forgot that they just built an outlet mall in Mercedes. Perhaps the rail could go all the way. And it would cover Weslaco as well.

Well, SPI is part of the RGV. It's in Cameron County.

People who live in the RGV just drive there. From Brownsville or Harlingen it's only about 20 to 30 minutes away.

Visitors from other areas either drive in or, if they fly they would have to rent a car at either the Harlingen or Brownsville airport, whichever one they land in.

So I can see that a train connection from McAllen Through Harlingen, Brownsville and thorugh SPI would be a great idea but as long as it stopped at the airports as well as the business districts.

Those NY HDR photos, and your photos of Houston Jax are very good; not overdone.

I've seen some posts of HDR photos on other forums where it seems that it is overdone. Sort of makes the photos seem cartoonish and unreal. I like reality.

Ah, here we go. So Brownsville is "nowhere" eh?

You know, I'm not even going to start a fight on this one.

But I must say, I don't understand why people think it's necessary to put down other cities. Is it just that something's up their ass?

Later Dudes.

Alright, can't wait to see your photos of Galveston.

As far as spots, I'm not that familiar with the spots other than the touristy areas, beach, strand, DT.

But I did see a photo thread from someone earlier on the neighborhoods of Galveston. Showed the real Galveston, poor and rich.

Might want to try looking at some past threads for that one.

Found it. It's from Jason, here's the link

http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...?showtopic=9371

You might want to PM him on the cool spots for photos.

Good luck.

Simply majestic

This is in Wyoming Eh?

We need to do a vacation up there one of these days.

Beautiful pics Montrose.

I don't think we'll be doing the 4-wheeling Mark did. Looks like they almost rolled over a couple of times.

Beautiful Country, crazy people.

A new forum has just been started up concentrating on small and mid-sized Texas cities.

If any of you are interested in this please give it a look and help out in it's development.

Hope to see you there.

Thx

http://smallcitytexas.19.forumer.com/index.php

You might be from the Valley if you still listen to 80's heavy metal music.

Some of these are from, "You might be a spic/mexican. . ."

Reminds me of the aggie jokes modified from blonde jokes.

Little mean, I know, but we do like to make fun of ourselves down in the Valle.

You might be from the Valley if you think the El Globo Supermarket parking lot is the designated place to dispose of the dirty diapers.

You might be from the Valley if you think the grocery store basket was provided just so you can transport your groceries all the way to your house.

You might be from the Valley if you think that the way to fix a broken brake light cover is to put red tape over the crack.

You might be from the Valley if you think that it's perfectly safe to put your seven kids in the back of the truck while you drive drunk to Boca Chica beach.

You might be from the Valley if while at the beach you spend all your time fixing and eating food and drinking beer, rather than enjoying the beach.

You might be from the Valley if your kids swim in the beach with their regular clothes on, or in their underwear.

You might be from the Valley if you refer to the Jones & Jones department store in McAllen as "Hones Y Hones"

You might be from the Valley if while in "Hones & Hones" you ask for the "lipasticki and Lipagloss"

You might be from the Valley if you refer to people from Corpus as "pinches norteneos"

You might be from the Valley if when asked how you got here you say "I swam"

You might be from the Valley if you think a Valley football team that wins district is actually good

Thx for all the comments guys. This was my first Ifest and if I had known it was this fun and interesting I would have gone sooner.

Adios

Thx for the comments.

Great shots Prsclynn.