We drove over to south Padre Island to give it a sniff. It is infested with tourist traps, overpriced restaurants and gigantic hotels that must cater to a tourist trade some other time of year because nobody was around any of them. Peg and I were equally unimpressed. We did find a restaurant called Rincon Something in Port Isabel which had great fish and shrimp and beans. Peg’s fries tasted packaged and frozen and the onion rings I had were nominal but everything else was tip-top. From Rincon Something we went back to the Invader.