Rio Travelers: MISSION & VICTORIA TEXAS

Greetings to all from south Texas. We decided to check out the area where lots of northerners spend their winter months. This was in May when it was very quiet. We were able to get close to the pool and we needed that daily "cooling off" since it was so HOT. After Mission , which is in the Rio Grande valley and very close to the Mexican border, we visited our wagonmasters on our up coming Alaska trip at their home in Victoria. Victoria is south of Houston and east of Corpus Christi and the area played a very important part in Texas' fight for independence from Mexico. It was not just the Alamo!! At the Presidio La Bahia in Goliad (near Victoria) over 300 soldiers killed by order of Santa Ana after they surrendered. It was shortly after that battle that Santa Ana was captured. Another interesting fact is that the Mexican General Zaragoza was born in Goliad. He played an important role in Mexico's fight for independence from France - that is the origin of Cinco de Mayo.
Enough history - we left south Texas at the end of May and arrived in San Diego on June 1st. Since Texas is so big, it took days to get out of the state. On the way, we stopped overnight in Fort Stockton. There is a post Civil War calvary fort there but we didn't visit since it was so hot - with daytime temperatures over 100 degrees. So you get a metal sculpture that sits alongside Route I-10.