The Rio Grande Valley, which sits in the tip of Texas along the Mexican border, is a surprising sight: full of palm trees, tropical flowers, and bountiful mangos, papayas, and citrus. It’s where all the wonderful ruby red grapefruits come from every winter. The area is also a bird watcher’s paradise with nearly 400 species of birds (and an unmentionable number of insects).
The lush Rio Grande Valley is known to locals as “The Valley” or the “RGV.” Towns sprawl along Highway 83 or what everyone refers to as “the expressway.” The towns of Roma, Rio Grande City, Mission, McAllen, Edinburg, Pharr, San Juan, Alamo, Donna, Weslaco, Mercedes, La Feria, Harlingen, San Benito, and Brownsville all run together along this fast-food studded highway. Be careful or you’ll find yourself partaking in three meals a day between Church’s, Sonic, Whataburger, Stars, McDonalds, Wendi’s, Laredo Taco Company, and the roadside taco hawkers.
You shouldn’t restrict yourself however, from eating the ubiquitous breakfast tacos. It is most certainly the Valley breakfast of choice. Your desired mix of Beans, Egg, Potato, Chorizo, Bacon, Cheese, and Salsa, wrapped up in a freshly made tortilla. And if you pair that later in your day with a Raspa—the sugary street-side snow cones topped with real fruit if you’re lucky—you begin to have real clarity on the obesity epidemic. So much delicious clarity!
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