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Shopping
Prowl San Bernardo Ave heading north from downtown for scores of Mexican shops
selling everything from housewares to outdoor sculpture to your basic, albeit colorful,
junk.
ARTS & CRAFTS
Basket & Pottery Alley
( 956-724-2415; 3519 San Bernardo Ave; 10am-6pm Mon-Sat)
An exuberant cliché selling
everything from pots to piñatas in a fiesta-like setting.
Bruce's Pottery
(3008 San Bernardo Ave; 10am-6pm Mon-Sat)
Yes there's pottery but there's also all manner of
strange and wonderful metalworks here.
ARTS & CRAFTS
Information
Laredo Convention & Visitors Bureau
( 800-361-3360, 956-795-2200;
www.visitlaredo.com
; 501 San Agustín
Ave, at Lincoln St; 8am-5pm Mon-Fri)
Basic but useful.
Texas Travel Information Center
( 956-417-4728; I-35 & US 83 exit 18; 8am-5pm)
About 16 miles
north of Laredo, this comprehensive center is a showplace and worthy of a stop just for
the Southwestern architecture and gardens.
Getting There & Around
Laredo International Airport
(LRD; 956-795-2000;
www.ci.laredo.tx.us/airport
)
has service by Americ-
an Eagle and United Express to and from their respective hubs at Dallas-Fort Worth and
Houston. The airport is off Bob Bullock Loop, 1.2 miles north of US 59 on the town's
northeast side.
Greyhound
( 956-723-4324;
www.greyhound.com
; 610 Salinas Ave)
operates right downtown. It of-
fers frequent service to San Antonio ($32, from 2¾ hours) and Houston ($40, 6½ hours)
plus once daily down the Rio Grande Valley to McAllen ($29, 3½ hours).
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