Isn’t this cute??? I’d look so good in it!
This is one of those places I always see while walking, but never go inside (why would I?), so this place’s story was totally unknown to me until I read this Texas Monthly article about McAllen’s cultural scene. They made the wedding dress in this Bad Bunny video! Wow! That’s so neat.
It’s a little surreal to read this article because it’s like insight into a parallel world I’m adjacent to, but never around. Some places I go to, some places I don’t. Some reasons are pretty serious, actually, and some are just, when I’m in the area, I feel too sweaty/thirsty/broke. The distinction is important, but it ends in fundamentally the same result — that’s not somewhere I go.
I feel very grateful for places I can just go and space out and be. Not coincidentally, they are spaces that embrace ambiguity.
Anyway, I have a fantasy of staying at Casa De Palmas for a week, sitting at the balcony, enjoying the good air with a nice iced coffee. Doesn’t that sound nice?