Last week was a bit of a write off. Tuesday everning Rick ended up in the Weslaco Hospital Emerg with high fever and strep throat. They wanted to admit him but decided to send him on his way after several tests and a few shots. I went for a haircut on Wednesday...left and the temp was 67, by the time I got to hair salon temp was 47. Freezing! By the time I got home I had the chills, sinus and congestion. Just as well the weather sucked...we didn't waste nice days sick on the couch and in bed. Big day out on Saturday feeling somewhat better, we went to Progreso again with John and Shiela so Rick buy some new cowboy boots, and are they snazzy. We had a nice lunch at the Red Snapper before heading back, when I remembered that we forgot our passports. Long walk across the bridge to the US border. Not only did I not have a passport, I changed purses and didn't have any ID. I was held in detention (Sheila was kind to enough to join me in detention) , it was called Locked Down in Homeland Security,while Rick (he had his Costco card photo ID and his drivers licence) and John drove back to Llano Grande to get our passports. Homeland Security was very kind to us and as soon as the passports arrived we were wisked through security. Sheila and John are still laughing. Went back to Mexico on Tuesday( passports in hand) so B could get boots also. unbelievable prices.
We left Llano Grande at 8:00 this morning and followed the Tropical Trail for part of our trip to the Seminole Canyon State Park. The drive ( 7 hours) is very boring as there is absolutely nothing to see but scrub land and desert. We did see a roadrunner( just 1). We are sitting on a hill in the desert overlooking the Seminole Canyon. There are only about 20 sites in the RV area of the State Park and only about 10 are occupied. Very quiet here in the desert. We watched an amazing sunset over the distant hills. We have water and hydro. No sewers or cable, but we were very surprised to find we have wifi so now that I am feeling better, I am back at the blog. We are going on a canyon tour tomorrow so hoping to have some nice pictures to post tomorrow,
Planning to do some hiking and biking tours over the next 2 days. Some where in this park there are pictographs on the canyon walls we would like to see.

We also had to go through 2 security checks by homeland security which are set up on these desolate roads. They are checking for drugs and aliens and every vehicle is stopped and checked. It is very common to see Homeland Security alongside the roads and off in the desert as we travel.