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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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