Homewood Suites El Paso Airpor

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>

... considered dangerous at night and dealys withe the bike build unfortunately meant it was night by the time I crossed. The drug cartels are at war and this erupts in public sometimes. Also robberies are common, but I felt safe enough. The military cruise around the streets hanging out the back of pickup trucks welding huge machine guns, and there are plenty of police around. <br><br>So after Nancy bought back some nice street food, flat soft tacos and freshly squeezed juice with pure ...

... only two! Thank goodness we got one of them because the other offerings in the El Paso area were not the most desirable. The camp, while not exactly on base, does have a shopette (convenience store, for you non-military types) and gas station. Most of the base is located on the opposite side of Hwy 54. <br><br>Many, many years ago, we were traveling to/from California (can&#8217;t remember which) and pulled into the base to stay at the VOQ ...

... border crossing. I've been reading in the local papers that the controversial border fence is now nearing completion and this is one of the hot spots. You can see all this right from the highway and as I was looking, a big black and orange sign flashed in front of me "Barnett Harley Davidson". What really caught my mind was the claim of "Worlds Largest"! Knowing that my sister ...

... with me much to the amusement of the entire shelter. ...the skinny teen girl who arrived in the middle of the night--raped and traumatized during her migration--saying she was 19 but looking more like 15...and how she invented excuses to hover in my shadow. ...the man battling depression, passing ghost-like with unfocused eyes through the corridors, yet stopping me to say, "I may be sad, but when I see your smile ...

... cooked in a Yucatan style. Very good, and different from what I've had before. Albert went safe with enchiladas and chile relleno, but they were really good too. And you can't beat the homemade tortillas. Yum. This morning we decided to make a couple of pit stops. First we went to Babies R Us to find a baby shower gift for my buddy, Kim. There are an incredible amount of stores in El Paso. Anything you could possibly want ...

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... a nautical club at all as I had once believed but more of a Karma club where the wheel is used to symbolise what goes around comes around. His local branch had done great things for the local down-trodden indigenous people who still live in the mountains as they have done for millennia. He told us of a Mennonite farmer in the area who is the world's biggest exporter of apples, the Bill Gates of Northern Mennonite Mexico! He made hundreds of Millions a year ...

... we detoured to the Mission Socorro, an adobe structure originally built in 1692. It is an outstanding example of Spanish Mission architecture, which has been beautifully restored. A very friendly and gracious caretaker invited us inside and insisted we all sign the guest book. Several of us made donations to the restoration fund. The mission was originally in Mexico, but the Rio Grande's numerous flooding and course changes resulted in the mission becoming a ...

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 ...