We recently took a day trip to visit the Texas facility for SpaceX, the rocket and spacecraft company founded by Elon Musk. Luckily, we got there before the rocket exploded!! There are three main areas, the launch site/landing pad, the test facility, and the tracking station. To get there we went to Brownsville, then turned East and drove forever on a road with almost nothing on it. Good thing it was the middle of the day, since it would have been dark and creepy at night! The facility itself is not overly photogenic (actually, Hollywood “B” movie-ish), but since we were nearby it was worth the trip.

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From there we continued to where the road ends at Boca Chica Beach on the Gulf of Mexico. You can drive on the beach so, of course we did! Once we got on the beach we made a right to head toward the Mexican border and the mouth of the Rio Grande River.

The river is pretty narrow and we could see people fishing from the Mexican side of the river. There were even some people standing in the middle fishing.

On the way home we passed a Border Patrol/Inspection station. We stopped and they asked if we were US citizens, when we said yes they waved us through.