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Tell them you want to be in the Annex [separate building], it's got a nice atrium full of greenery, and a babbling brook, and I really like that the room doors are French [floor to ceiling glass]. It's a different kind of motel!
Speaking from experience there aint ya?
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SHARP327
Veteran Expediter
if you're referring to me?...no...a friend referred me to the same location and I did a Google search review and read someones review of a couple of gay men shaving each others arm pits in one of the small private 2 person pools....so we stayed at the La Quinta instead
No..and I apologize. I really do think I hit the "reply with quote" button but for some reason the quote didn't transfer. I fixed as quick as I could, but apparently not before you saw it....sorry.
As for your research..that's hilarious!...a little sick...but funny..lol
My Top 10 Things To Do In Laredo.
1. Shave some guys armpits.
2. Drive north to Dallas on an empty move and then get a Load offer going to Laredo.
3. Try to find a local that speaks 'Merican.
4. Go downtown and try to find a parking spot so you can visit all the little cheap "Made in China" shops.
5. Decide to go over to Nuevo Laredo and then chicken out.
6. Hold a contest at the TA to decide who has seniority.
7. Visit the only known shade tree in Laredo. It is located in the South West corner of the Kmart lot.
8. Look up the weather in Michigan and hope.
9. Visit one of the big pottery shops and decide that fire pot won't fit in your van if you get a load.
10. Post pics on Expeditor's On Line of two guys shaving each other's armpits.
1. Shave some guys armpits.
2. Drive north to Dallas on an empty move and then get a Load offer going to Laredo.
3. Try to find a local that speaks 'Merican.
4. Go downtown and try to find a parking spot so you can visit all the little cheap "Made in China" shops.
5. Decide to go over to Nuevo Laredo and then chicken out.
6. Hold a contest at the TA to decide who has seniority.
7. Visit the only known shade tree in Laredo. It is located in the South West corner of the Kmart lot.
8. Look up the weather in Michigan and hope.
9. Visit one of the big pottery shops and decide that fire pot won't fit in your van if you get a load.
10. Post pics on Expeditor's On Line of two guys shaving each other's armpits.
I'm really, really concerned about what is going to happen when Ragman reads this.
Yeah...well... we get paid really well and get lots of free stuffI heard they have their own cheerleading squad ..
Odds are he wimps out, based on recent history.
LOL... Just when I thought you were losing your edge...
ChrisGa23
Expert Expediter
Speaking from experience there aint ya?
Maybe lol!!
pearlpro
Expert Expediter
So the BIG QUESTION was Where is the real Mexican food to be found,
Laredo has so Improved from the years I used to go down there and pick up steel coils and Steel, Once I was held in a Fenced compound, the Dispatcher didnt want to come down to the YARD, so there was a call box and Bar code scanner, You pressed the button, scanned your barcode, the gate opened and you drove in and the LOAD was on a trailer, supposedly marked with a barcode, My load wasnt marked, there were three different trailers, I called the dispatcher who was obviously sitting in his nice safe home, and waited and waited, at least I was inside a very high fenced lot.
As it got dark, the FUN BEGAN...I could here the gunshots, and the cat calls and people fighting and all sorts of things, it was darker then dark in this pickup lot, about 11 PM a Border Patrol cop comes by and says WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE...I told him what happened as I was locked INSIDE this compound, he made a call, and soon a Guard came by, ARMED and got my Load info and I left, before I drove off he says DONT STOP FOR ANYONE ON THE ROAD....LOL DONT WORRY I WASNT GOING TO....when I got to the Old Pilot down there it was a surreal sight, Trucks circling the lot, Gals on the hood a PARADE of sorts with someone on the CB saying vote for your favorite, UGGG I wanted to hide in my sleeper, The CB had the BOYSTOWN BUS GUY come on down to Boystown enjoy a free ride, It was as if I were in a Twilight zone episode....The compound was surrounded by a Barb wire and Concertina wire walled compound, after a shower and short rest I pulled out of Laredo. That was about 1989....
Laredo has so Improved from the years I used to go down there and pick up steel coils and Steel, Once I was held in a Fenced compound, the Dispatcher didnt want to come down to the YARD, so there was a call box and Bar code scanner, You pressed the button, scanned your barcode, the gate opened and you drove in and the LOAD was on a trailer, supposedly marked with a barcode, My load wasnt marked, there were three different trailers, I called the dispatcher who was obviously sitting in his nice safe home, and waited and waited, at least I was inside a very high fenced lot.
As it got dark, the FUN BEGAN...I could here the gunshots, and the cat calls and people fighting and all sorts of things, it was darker then dark in this pickup lot, about 11 PM a Border Patrol cop comes by and says WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE...I told him what happened as I was locked INSIDE this compound, he made a call, and soon a Guard came by, ARMED and got my Load info and I left, before I drove off he says DONT STOP FOR ANYONE ON THE ROAD....LOL DONT WORRY I WASNT GOING TO....when I got to the Old Pilot down there it was a surreal sight, Trucks circling the lot, Gals on the hood a PARADE of sorts with someone on the CB saying vote for your favorite, UGGG I wanted to hide in my sleeper, The CB had the BOYSTOWN BUS GUY come on down to Boystown enjoy a free ride, It was as if I were in a Twilight zone episode....The compound was surrounded by a Barb wire and Concertina wire walled compound, after a shower and short rest I pulled out of Laredo. That was about 1989....
myvan010
Seasoned Expediter
Did a internet check and found this site for Laredo
Welcome to Laredo, Texas
Welcome to Laredo, Texas
I heard they have their own cheerleading squad ..
That's funny right there.
pearlpro
Expert Expediter
What to really do while In Laredo at night...
'Invisible UFOs' fill the skies | Fox News
"Why are all the good UFOs invisible?" one Gather.com user asked in response to the latest "invisible UFO" report posted to the site.
You might have thought a defining characteristic of a UFO would be visibility. But thanks to zealous alien hunters doggedly scanning the sky with night-vision cameras, a new class of flying objects that only emit infrared light has emerged from the darkness. Are they spies from the great beyond?
"Some people claim to see actual battles between UFOs up in the sky, using night-vision equipment," the ufologist Robert Sheaffer told Life's Little Mysteries. "Those devices magnify faint objects so much that the sky seems to be filled with invisible UFOs. In reality, of course, they are seeing owls, bats, moths, airplanes, satellites, etc." Night-vision optics trade low resolution for high sensitivity, he explained, so that points of light (such as distant satellites) spill out into circles that make the objects appear huge.
However, some of the invisible UFOs out there really are spies of a sort — or whatever else you choose to call military drones. [7 Things Most Often Mistaken for UFOs]
Consider, for example, an invisible triangle UFO recently caught on camera by the Laredo Paranormal Research Society, a Texas group. In their footage, captured using an infrared-sensitive third-generation night-vision camera and posted to YouTube July 13, an object composed of three evenly spaced glowing orbs streaked southward across the field of view and disappeared behind the roof of a house.
According to LPRS founder Ismael Cuellar, the "infrared-cloaked" object could not be seen with the naked eye, and cruised silently. "[We] have ruled out birds, bugs, airplanes, helicopters, and even flying drones by comparing them side by side as a point of reference," Cuellar told Life's Little Mysteries. This seems to leave just one explanation: It's a cloaked alien spaceship.
'[We] have ruled out birds, bugs, airplanes, helicopters, and even flying drones.'
- Laredo Paranormal Research Society founder Ismael Cuellar
Not so, according to Ben McGee, a geoscientist, aerospace consultant, UFO skeptic and lead field researcher on the National Geographic series "Chasing UFOs." In McGee's opinion, all the signs point to this object being a border patrol drone with infrared anti-collision or identification lights. Here's why he thinks so.
"Nearly one-third of traffic through the nearby Laredo International Airport has historically been military in nature. Laredo is very near to the Mexican border. The military is increasingly using drones to assist with border security, which are small, quiet, and dim (to the naked eye) aircraft," McGee wrote in an email, adding that most drones are also triangular. [UFO Sightings Are 3,615 Times More Common than Voter Fraud]
This alleged drone oversaturated the camera's infrared sensor. Why? "Particularly with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), anticollision systems are of the utmost importance," he wrote. "One custom UAV lighting manufacturer recently announced custom infrared navigation lights for a major UAV defense contractor. Using these lights in 'constant-on' infrared mode would make the tail, belly, and wingtips extraordinarily bright in infrared, washing out the shape of the aircraft in-between."
And that description pretty closely matches the case.
"In short," McGee said, "high-intensity/close-range infrared lights interacting with a sensitive infrared camera is the problem — turning an aircraft into a triangular blob — rather than the infrared camera being the solution to revealing invisible triangles or pyramids zooming about our airspace."
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'Invisible UFOs' fill the skies | Fox News
"Why are all the good UFOs invisible?" one Gather.com user asked in response to the latest "invisible UFO" report posted to the site.
You might have thought a defining characteristic of a UFO would be visibility. But thanks to zealous alien hunters doggedly scanning the sky with night-vision cameras, a new class of flying objects that only emit infrared light has emerged from the darkness. Are they spies from the great beyond?
"Some people claim to see actual battles between UFOs up in the sky, using night-vision equipment," the ufologist Robert Sheaffer told Life's Little Mysteries. "Those devices magnify faint objects so much that the sky seems to be filled with invisible UFOs. In reality, of course, they are seeing owls, bats, moths, airplanes, satellites, etc." Night-vision optics trade low resolution for high sensitivity, he explained, so that points of light (such as distant satellites) spill out into circles that make the objects appear huge.
However, some of the invisible UFOs out there really are spies of a sort — or whatever else you choose to call military drones. [7 Things Most Often Mistaken for UFOs]
Consider, for example, an invisible triangle UFO recently caught on camera by the Laredo Paranormal Research Society, a Texas group. In their footage, captured using an infrared-sensitive third-generation night-vision camera and posted to YouTube July 13, an object composed of three evenly spaced glowing orbs streaked southward across the field of view and disappeared behind the roof of a house.
According to LPRS founder Ismael Cuellar, the "infrared-cloaked" object could not be seen with the naked eye, and cruised silently. "[We] have ruled out birds, bugs, airplanes, helicopters, and even flying drones by comparing them side by side as a point of reference," Cuellar told Life's Little Mysteries. This seems to leave just one explanation: It's a cloaked alien spaceship.
'[We] have ruled out birds, bugs, airplanes, helicopters, and even flying drones.'
- Laredo Paranormal Research Society founder Ismael Cuellar
Not so, according to Ben McGee, a geoscientist, aerospace consultant, UFO skeptic and lead field researcher on the National Geographic series "Chasing UFOs." In McGee's opinion, all the signs point to this object being a border patrol drone with infrared anti-collision or identification lights. Here's why he thinks so.
"Nearly one-third of traffic through the nearby Laredo International Airport has historically been military in nature. Laredo is very near to the Mexican border. The military is increasingly using drones to assist with border security, which are small, quiet, and dim (to the naked eye) aircraft," McGee wrote in an email, adding that most drones are also triangular. [UFO Sightings Are 3,615 Times More Common than Voter Fraud]
This alleged drone oversaturated the camera's infrared sensor. Why? "Particularly with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), anticollision systems are of the utmost importance," he wrote. "One custom UAV lighting manufacturer recently announced custom infrared navigation lights for a major UAV defense contractor. Using these lights in 'constant-on' infrared mode would make the tail, belly, and wingtips extraordinarily bright in infrared, washing out the shape of the aircraft in-between."
And that description pretty closely matches the case.
"In short," McGee said, "high-intensity/close-range infrared lights interacting with a sensitive infrared camera is the problem — turning an aircraft into a triangular blob — rather than the infrared camera being the solution to revealing invisible triangles or pyramids zooming about our airspace."
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