On such a gloomy day, I wish I was here! After Mike passed away, the girls and I went to our favorite place. As a family, we made many trips to South Padre Island. We tried Corpus Christi, Port Aransas, Galveston, Houston but nothing compares to South Padre. We tried condos and rentals, but liked best a dive of a 2 story motel, The Surf Motel, in the middle of the island that we always went back to. Back in the early 90s there wasn't the tourist trappings like today. We could walk to the bay side, drive as far north on the beach as you wanted and Mike fished, the girls played in the sand and I sought sea shells and did a lot of reading. The typical family. We went to a wildlife refuge to see the migratory birds and fished off the piers. Rode the go carts. Rented bicycles. Toured the small towns around there. The girls had a pool at the motel, there was the bar and they had volleyball courts. The rooms have kitchenetts and Mike would barbeque with the other guys in the middle of everything. It was fantastic. I am thinking of heading down there before hurricane season.
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