Crosby’s Restaurant in Ciudad Acuсa

[SHANEA]

Texas trip ‘bees knees’
SANDERSON – Texas is big and dining at the Starlight Theater in Terlingua was “the bees knees,” a family from near Manchester, England, said on their first trip to the Lone Star State.

Joe Navickas made the comments on a stop by the News Leader Tuesday after 11 days in Southwest Texas, including a visit with Don and Cindy Kelso of Sanderson.

Joe, Alison and son Joseph visited Del Rio and Big Bend where they went to the “Window” looking out on the distant landscape to the west.

They went by canoe down the river and “fell in the Rio Grande” when the small boat capsized.

Near Del Rio, they had lunch in Crosby’s Restaurant in Ciudad Acuсa and on the river trip, they stopped on the south bank for a picnic lunch.

“So we had lunch twice in Mexico,” Alison said.

On the Big Bend trip, the family stopped at the Terlingua ghost town and ate at the Starlight Theater.

“It was the bees knees,” Joe said. “The food was great – not as good a Cindy’s cooking – but it was great.”

The two families met five years ago in a helicopter flying over the Grand Canyon in Arizona.

They met again two years later in Lafayette, IN, to attend the marriage of the Kelso’s daughter Laura Moody and toured Kelso’s alma mater Purdue University.

The Kelsos returned the favor two years ago when they visited the Navickas family in Lymm in Cheshire County, England.

They toured Kelso, Scotland, and visited Ely Cathedral in East Anglia, a church in which Cindy Kelso’s great, great grandfather served as the organist.

“We tried to find a stained glass window her family made,” Joe Navickas said. “Ely was the name shortened from the original name of Isle of Eels.”

Navickas said he was a bit unsettled in the helicopter ride over the Grand Canyon.

“I’m afraid of heights anyway,” he said. “Here we were 200 feet off the ground then all of a sudden we were a mile off the ground.”

He said compared to prices in England, the food at the Starlight was a “reasonable value.”

The exchange rate of $2 to the British pound “makes everything cheap” in the US, he said.

“Petrol (gasoline) especially,” he said. “At home we pay the equivalent of $9 per gallon.”

While in Sanderson, Alison said they enjoyed the music of Dewey and his TCBs playing at Paddy’s Restaurant.

Besides finding Texas big, all Navickas agreed their biggest impression was the friendliness in the state.

“All the waves and shaking hands was impressive,” Alison said. “And the lack of traffic also impressed us.”

From Sanderson, the family headed to San Antonio where they hoped to visit the Alamo and the nearby River Walk.

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[homerboy2u]

That's a great restaurant indeed.

[BigBendHiker]

Yep....Crosby's is a great restaurant, indeed.


BBH

[presidio]

He said compared to prices in England,

“Petrol (gasoline) especially,” he said. “At home we pay the equivalent of $9 per gallon.”

Yep, and most of that is taxes....to pay for the highly socialized the-government-takes-care-of-you-but-turn-in-all-your-money style of life there. That's a bloody shame.

[McTullis]

Man. I'm craving the taco tray and a jumbo margarita.


Then $1 tequila shots at the Tejas Bar 3 blocks down. Good times.