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Welcome Home WINTER TEXAN • • • March 17, 2021
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We’re just connecting the dots.
VOLUME 6 • ISSUE 22 • March 17, 2021 • • • your official connection to the rio grande valley • • •
hello FROM KRISTI
That’s far from
a wrap, Folks! While this may be our last issue of Welcome Home Winter Texan for the season, that doesn’t mean our work is done until the start of next season. We’ll still be here, working around the clock to prepare for your return-not to mention taking care of our Converted Texans! While our Summer Supper Club plans and our Reunion Tour are on hold for now, that doesn’t mean we won’t be ready to mobilize quickly, just as soon as we feel it is safe to gather in large groups. I’m optimistic about next season. While I don’t have a crystal ball, I feel certain things will be different.. in many good ways. We’ve learned a great deal this season, and the summer will allow us time to tweak what worked and what didn’t this past season. In the meantime, we will miss you. I know it hasn’t been the season you’re used to; it wasn’t for us, either. But we are so glad you came! The winter storm taught so many of us locals what you already know--sunshine beats snow and freezing cold all day long! We wish you the safest of travels as you make your way home. Please hurry back! • We’re just connecting the dots,
Kristi
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he end of the Winter Texan season is approaching, and with endings come new beginnings… Bienvenidos, Converted Texans! We want to be the first to wish you, “Welcome Home” as you make the transition from wintering to full-time living in the Rio Grande Valley! This is the time of year when Winter Texans begin their journey north. It’s a common misconception that the exodus turns local resorts into ghost towns. While that may be true during the heat of the afternoon, many RV resorts operate business as usual--at a slightly slower pace. So who are the people who opt to stay in the parks year-round? At Welcome Home, we affectionately call them Converted Texans, and we love them just as much as our Winter Texans. We took to Facebook to ask followers who have made
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the leap from semi to permanent residents what they enjoy about being “converted.” The responses, for the most part, were very positive. Diane Julius posted that she loves the summer heat and heads to the pool. “Most of the time you have it all to yourselves,” she writes. Dorothea Gray said she and her husband became Winter Texans in 2006. A leg injury in 2008 kept them here, but, she writes, “What better place to be stuck… going on 13 years here.” She adds, “We spend our time either in our pool or at the beach.” It’s true! Most of our Converted Texans started out as Winter Texans, but they quickly saw how wonderful life can be in the Rio Grande Valley. It might start as simply extending CONVERTED TEXANS CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 >>