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Lower Rio Grande Valley

McAllen, Texas World Class Birding, Shopping & Cuisine
16 Dec 2015

McAllen, Texas World Class Birding, Shopping & Cuisine

by Thomas Wilmer | posted in: Travel Stories | 0

McAllen, Texas is so far south that if you headed west you’d eventually pop out on the Pacific Coast around the southern tip of Baja, Mexico. Down here in the Lower Rio Grande Valley it’s a distinctive world, defined by … Continued

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Quinta Mazatlan World Birding Center-McAllen, Texas
13 Dec 2015

Quinta Mazatlan World Birding Center-McAllen, Texas

by Thomas Wilmer | posted in: Travel Stories | 0

Associate Producer, Kim Schneider reports from the Lower Rio Grande Valley at Quinta Mazatlan where they’re saving habitat…one backyard at a time. And what an incredible backyard you’ll find at this Spanish Colonial estate, hand-built of adobe bricks back in the … Continued

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Kika de la Garza, retired South Texas Congressman
24 Aug 2013

Kika de la Garza, retired South Texas Congressman

by Thomas Wilmer | posted in: Travel Stories | 0

  Join me  in McAllen, Texas for a fascinating conversation with Kika del la Garza and his wife Lucille. Kika de la garza served for 14 years as a Texas State Representative followed by 32 years as a member of … Continued

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