With each mile driving south of San Antonio, I was going the furthest south in Texas that I had ever been.

I was surprised how heavy the traffic was on the way here from San Antonio. I expected more desolate. Really nothing in Laredo that I wanted to see or do, only wanted to say I have been here and now have a couple of receipts to prove it. In fact, I could not even find a place nearby my hotel to get my first decent food on this trip.