Comfort Inn Airport East El Paso

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Charles en Kamala onze gastheer en gastvrouw van de warmshowerlist zijn prettig gezelschap.
Omdat er sneeuw voorspelt is blijven we 2 dagen extra en het gaat werkelijk sneeuwen.
Woensdag is het dan zover. We worden aan de westkant van de stad gebracht en fietsen 100 km naar Columbus

... cotton growing, and also some massive wind farm/wind generators – sign said it was the 'Wind Energy Capital of the World', it certainly looked like it, we were surrounded by huge wind generators.

Arrived in El Paso, TX after a very, very long drive. Amazing to be able to look to the right of the car and see the bright ...

... eating our sandwiches and enjoying some slow time before hitting I-10 for endless hours again. Aside from the nice detour, there is little to report on this section. We wish we had extra time to visit Old Mesilla on our way to El Paso and also to drive the Scenic Drive above downtown, but will have to visit those next time. The babies have finally ...

... the sidewalk. Then, Bethany stepped in the mud so deep that it sucked her sandal off- pretty gross, but she found a water spicket to rinse it off under. As we were leaving the parking lot, we saw a roadrunner not 5 feet in front of us. None of us were fast enough with the cameras. Then we saw a tarantula walking accross the road as we were leaving. I made Jose stop the car, so I could go video tape it. I got pretty close. I think ...

... stands at every crossroads...no touristic interest it just match with the name: el paso...we don't stay here we just pass...anyway i keep a good remenber on crossing the border bridge from US to Mexico, feeling of deja vu and cliche in the same time...

... 12/12/2007 entry], celebrated the day with a 5 hour Spanish program (I didn't stay for it all!), featuring talks on Mayan customs, dancing & music, traditional clothing, and a ceremony blessing the new fire. The video included just below is just one minute of a "womanist" explanation of the Mayan goddess [sounds like "Olla' "] who carries the fire/torch. The Feb.2 Mayan celebration ...

Hola Amigos Queridos! It has once again been far too long since we last unfurled our weary traveler's tales upon you and I am going to remedy that situation now. In our last entry we were about halfway to the Mexico/US border in a city called San Luis Potosi planning to hitch to Fresnillo. We ended up spending a lovely night in San Luis at an extremely cheap (and really loud) Hotel. We had arrived at 5am that morning, shattered from sleeping in a bus depot in ...

... where I spent ten minutes searching the car park. Remote-control car keys were a very useful invention. On Christmas morning I bade farewell to the motel owners, a couple from Bombay who had helped me through the key-loss episode with cups of tea and common-sense philosophy, and drove east on I-40 towards Albequerque. Throughout the day Santa regaled me with a series of beautiful desert landscapes to a classic rock soundtrack: the towers of Monument Valley rising out of ...

... so we started out together. We spent the first ten miles chatting and enjoying the ride. Then the climbing started and I didn't see Michelle again for the rest of the day. As a matter of fact, I didn't see anybody for the rest of the day. My riding has become a solo affair, and offers lots of time for enjoying the route and personal reflection. We are now entering the Texas Hill Country, and today's route was supposed to be challenging. I actually found it quite pleasant, with ...

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 ...