Baymont Inns & Suites El Paso East Hotel

This is definitely the worst campground we have stayed at. Next time we will remember and take our time to visit the shower-house before we pay. It was to dirty to use. The ground was covered with little pickers that stuck to my shoes, one even came through my shoe to poke me. Oh well, live and learn.<br>

... fruit ice blocks for dessert, we walked a few blocks to walmart for supplies. It felt safe and it was encouraging to see lots of people out shopping with their families. There was a few army guys in the car park. It looked as if they were staying in a tent erected by their jeep. They were playing hand ball against the wall, looked fun but i thought hopefully these guys were off duty.<br><br>The safest place to stay was a nice hotel. Lucerna Hotel was flash, 4 stars or I think. I ...

... why I had take this trip in the first place.<br><br>Cut to a grand total of 700 miles on the clock. I was really getting tired at this point. Not so much sleepy, but exhaused. I will end this by giving the signs of sleep deprivation I experienced:<br><br>1. Nodding off. Yes, its perfectly easy to do even on a bike.<br>2. Unable to maintain constant speed- 60 mph, 75 mph, 85 mph, etc.<br>3 Unable to maintain lane position- I kept following the white ...

... most were out of my financal range. We were hoping to go across the border for some sightseeing and shopping but were warned not to. Even the locals are staying north of the border the last few months due to the drug wars, shootings and kidnappings. Juarez has a number of medical and dental clinics used by Americans and have resorted to running van services from door-to-door because no one wants to drive (or walk) across the border for services.

... remembers accompanying his mom across the International Bridge after buying groceries in Juarez: "...we would stand in line for a long time waiting our turn to approach the immigration and customs inspectors. The inspectors, all "gringos" in those days, would take their sweet time during and inbetween inspections. On more than one occasion...the inspector would ask my ...

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... a bearing. We would need a new hub for sure! We decided that it would be best to keep the bearings if we could get the right ones in case the other side went out. This proved to be a good idea. After returning to Autozone, they sent us to another location where we exchanged the parts for the right ones. Next in order was to find the trailer shop and a nearby motel so we could be there when they opened the next morning and get what we needed. We found ...

... in Austin to shut it down permanently. My friend Anne rode on that bus, and so when the issue came up today at the city council she had Eric pick her up from the peace vigil corner to attend the meeting. She's one in a million. Check out the thumbnail sequence above to see a "Motorcycle Mama" in action. P.S. The council unaminously voted to oppose ASARCO. Success!!

... of the city with the wind blowing so strongly forward progress was sometimes almost impossible. We arrived at the hotel early in the afternoon, only to face the disappointment of an inoperable hot tub and unheated pool. We celebrated the crossing of the Texas state line with margaritas before dinner. Dinner tonight was ravioli with sauce and sausage, fresh fruit salad, broccoli, spinach salad, bread, and pecan pie with vanilla ice cream.

I crossed the border at El Paso, the very first place that I ever walked across a border about three years before. Mexican customs people even searched my stuff, right there in the bus station, and got excited by my transistor radio. I remember talking to a guy on the bus about my perception that Mexico was inhabited by a countryside full of ...