Today was our trip to Nuevo Progresso. It is a small Mexican town that is across a walking toll bridge (toll is 25 cents) from Progresso, Texas. This town is where a huge amount of retirees go for their dental work and prescriptions. We knew this when we left but I must admit that I had never seen so many dental offices in a three block space in my life! None of which I would walk into for dental work as the place is typical Mexican border town, dirty with a thousand people trying to get you to buy all of the typical things.
Mark walking across the walking toll bridge. You can see the people driving across to his left.
You can see in this shot on the left hand side of the street a Pharmacy, a dentist then another pharmacy, then another dentist. It goes on like this all the way down the street. Every few steps a street vendor would try to get you into his pharmacy to buy some prescription drugs or some hawker would try to get you into the dentists office to get some dental work. I don't think so. Now, we did meet two very nice ladies in the booze store who have been coming down to get their dental work done from Dr. Alore, about 3 blocks into town. They've been getting their work done for almost 12 years and are very happy. So there is your recommendation. Go see Dr. Alore!
More pharmacies and on the right side a girly bar!
We were planning to have lunch but I couldn't even find a place we would eat in so we headed back to the US of A and found a great little diner in LaFaria with a bakery next door. I was a happy camper.
On the way home we stopped by the Port of Brownsville to visit the Shrimp Outlet operated by the local shrimp fisherman. I was in heaven.
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