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A Port Day In Progreso, Mexico

March 28, 2020Jodi SmithCruising, Mexico, Travel

One of our favorite ports to visit in Mexico is Progreso. We even choose our recent cruise January 6, 2020 onboard Carnival’s ship Fantasy because it was one of the ports! However, this authentic Mexican port often receives mixed reviews and a bad rap from other cruisers. Visit any cruise board or Facebook group and you’ll likely see advice to

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Pulling into Cabo on our first time sailing the west coast! Stunning views from our balcony. ...

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We are so excited to set sail tomorrow from Galveston, Texas aboard the Carnival Breeze to celebrate Carnival's 50th birthday party! Several ships will meet up in the Gulf Of Mexico to have the biggest party at sea and make history. Follow Carnival on Tik Tok to see our dance off! They asked us to wear red, white, or blue clothes for the party so I (Jodi) made these shirts for us. Plus Steve had to have one for his favorite restaurant in Cozumel-Casa Denis! As well as we needed shirts in case we got found wandering around the ship (as Steve has done before LOL!!) Look for lots of pics of the historic sailing soon!

PS-if you need custom shirts for your cruise or celebration-let me know-I can ship anywhere!
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We FINALLY got our ebikes! After waiting over a year from another company who never came through on our order-we went with Lectric Bikes. Steve's came two weeks ago-mine just arrived! My bike was shipped to the wrong address and it was a comedy of errors to receive it but it finally made it!

We spent a ton of time researching ebikes and were really impressed with the reviews of Lectric Bikes. So far-they seem to be a really high quality product that was well packaged and sturdily built.

They are also SO much fun! We broke them in with a short 3 mile ride yesterday. We will use them to explore all the awesome areas we are RVing in plus be able to ride them in Yellowstone this summer! What an amazing way to see Yellowstone!

These bikes are FAST! They can be Class 3 and go up to 28 miles an hour! We felt like we were flying at 19! The throttle is a super way to climb hills-and will make biking in rougher terrain much easier!

We can't wait to find some more trails to ride on-right now we are just getting used to them inside our RV park. Excuse us while we go for a bike ride!

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Last Sunday found us taking a long drive out into the ranch country of south Texas. In the tiny town of La Gloria, Texas, 85 year old Fred Renk runs the only bullfight in Texas-the Santa Maria Bullring. After losing his son David (who was a famous matador), Fred had closed his bullring. But after much demand-he decided to offer two shows this spring and we were able to catch the final show.

The bullfight is bloodless and no bulls are killed. A flower is attached to the bulls hump with Velcro and for a matador to "win" the fight-he must remove the flower from the bull. Matadors from Spain and Mexico put on a great show. One bull refused to go back into the shoot after his flower was removed-it took 20 minutes and 6 guys to herd him in!

Another matador (shown with Jodi) was actually bested by the bull who got him on the ground and trampled him! Luckily, the matador was OK other then his pride and some dirt and his crew responded quickly to distract the bull.

At the end of the show, Fred announced he is organizing another show for March-if you are in the area-go check it out. It is a nice way to spend the day...enjoy some tacos and a beer and watch a great show that may soon not exist in our country. It seems as if Fred is hoping the right matador will come along and take over for him and continue to shows but right now nothing is planned after this show.

A bullfight is not something that we would normally do-in fact before seeing the ad neither of us had ever considered attending one! But one of the best parts about living this kind of lifestyle is we get to experience and see things we may not even know exist! Like a bullfight in the middle of south Texas. We are truly enjoying this journey and the RV lifestyle!

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