At least a couple of times a season, a group from our park bicycles into Mexico for lunch. We've planned to go on this trip for the past couple of years and finally managed to go this year. The bikes are tossed into the back of a pickup truck and driven to Los Ebanos where people and bikes take the hand drawn ferry across the Rio Grande River. Once on the Mexican side of the river you ride the two miles into town.

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The ferry can hold 3 vehicles plus a bunch of bikes and people.

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Approaching Mexico .... don't think I'd want the job of digging in the water.

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Our group consisted of 12 bikes and 7 taxi riders.

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This restaurant is popular with the biking crowd. There were several groups of Winter Texans in the restaurant. Lunch was very good. I had garlic fish ..... yum..... and Ed had Tabasco Fish which was actually fish, shrimp, octopus, green peppers and onions cooked in a Tabasco / tomato sauce and served in a foil package. He said it was very good.

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The main intersection in town.

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An interesting looking building.

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Another street scene.

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I don't think this police officer is very effective.

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Biking back to the ferry. Penny took her tri-cycle and managed to keep up with the bikes. It's amazing how fast she can make that trike go.

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I decided to help speed the ferry up on the trip back to the US.