So after your typical delay out of DFW I reached my destination just after 11:00am. I retrieved my luggage at the gate because there was no room in the overhead. I decided not to rent a car and intend to walk to each of my destinations this week.
McAllen airport is your typical small town airport with a handful of gates and short walk to the exit. Being a small town airport also allows for the airport to be situated in the center of the city, where as big city airport operate several miles away in the suburbs. The walk from the airport to my hotel was approximately 1.3 miles. So not bad at all.
Back in August, I found a cheap online rate @ The Red Roof Inn. It’s a perfect location to both the airport and the humanitarian respite center where I will be volunteering. Upon checking in, I was pleasantly surprised by how nice and clean room was.
Once I unpacked I needed to walk to the nearby grocery to get my food for the week. It’s going to be breakfast shakes in the morning, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch, and then cheap lite fast food for dinner. Snacks range from humus, pita chips, pretzels, pistachios, ginger snap cookies, cheese sticks, and chips and salsa.
After dropping the groceries off at the hotel it was time for lunch @ Taco Palenque on 1000 S. 10th St. I ordered a Taco Al Pastor and a Taco Chicken Fajita with a side of refried beans. It was delicious. My only regret is that Mexican food back home will seem so inferior now.
After lunch I headed back to the hotel for shower and a nap. Before dinner I thought I would watch a movie. As for dinner, I continued with the Mexican theme by walking to Mi Taco Ponchos. I choose the steak nachos and was not disappointed.
And now I’m back at the hotel watching Game 7 Dodgers vs Brewers. The plan for tomorrow includes walking the route from the hotel to the humanitarian respite center and also walk down to the border to see Rio Grande. Check back tomorrow to see what I find along the way.
CJE