They say everything is bigger in Texas... This is a beautiful space and covering a tremendous area of Texas and Mexico.
I have been blessed to have called it my home, and a fitting one, given the station I built is right there on that same stretch of border.
There's something poetic about "Amistad" friendship being the name over water that quietly separates and joins two countries at once, and me having spent part of my broadcasting life telling stories from exactly that line.
For my grandson, that landscape will give him something most kids never get: a place where geography, history, and family memory all sit in the same spot. Whenever he travels there he won't just be visiting a lake he'll be standing where his grandfather once built a television station on the edge of two nations, near where the Rio Grande and the Devil's River carve some of the clearest water in the state.
A few things that make it worth the trip, beyond the scenery:
- Winter is the sweet spot — clearer water, cooler temps, better visibility for diving or just seeing the canyon walls drop into the lake.
- The paddle trails on the U.S. side genuinely explore, not just look from a dock.
- No cell signal out there, which sounds like a drawback until you remember that's exactly what makes a place stick in ones memory.
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