So long Dallas and friends! Time for the dessert and a state I've never been to! But I20 west is just long! The further we got the more decilate! All and any campgrounds were full due to "workers" that filled positons across southwest Texas! "Workers" move around the country hauling their homes behind them. And when they find jobs, as it does so many, they drop their campers and live there until the jobs are done. Then they pick up and move on to the next.....
So here we are in "no where' Texas with no where to stay! We finally came upon a town called Midland and a Walmart!! Can you believe it?! Thet will put a Walmart anywhere! But we were quite pleased! We could settle before the storms rolled in! And boy were they some storms!
The next morning came and the skys were clear! We continued west toward interstate 10. Along the way we saw old deserted towns, rv graveyards (we'd always wondered where they went to die! ;) and tall white windmills that have become popular for getting electricity the "green way". They turned in sync with each other and there were hundreds of them! Reminded me of something right out of a Stephen King book! The Langaliers!
Finally I 10 and El Paso!! I always thought El Paso was barren and desert but I was soooo wrong! The city,the traffic,the hussle of the city was beyond anything I'd thought it was! While sitting in traffic I see something quite different than the "norm" (depending on what one thinks normal is....). It's a small narrow strip of water, a river perhaps, and beyond was a hill of shacks and dirt roads! No cars or signs of life really? So I pull out the map to investigate and low and behold it's Juarez,Mexico!! Tim and I both sat there with jaws dropped in pure amazement! Never ever did we realize we were on the Rio Grande! Nothing "grand" about this river! And little did we know that Mexico would be 1/4 of a mile from the edge of U.S. soil in El Paso! Ahhh! No wonder boarder patrol was everywhere! Duh!
Sorry El Paso, nothing makes me want to come back to you again!
We reach the New Mexico boarder and more eye openers that had never occured to us! To be continued in the next post!
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| windmills in sync |
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| storms brewing |
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| a long long drive! |
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| imagine living here? |
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| we're moving along |
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| hard living |
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| ghost towns |
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| cemeteries |
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| Mexico |
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