La Quinta Inn Lomaland El Paso

... 382;e mít i palmy. Z rádia zní španělština a typický jižanský rytmy. Parkujeme u jednoho z „přechodových" mostů a jdeme nakouknout, jak to chodí v Mexiku. Pasová kontrola spočívá v zaplacení 0,50 USD za osobu a ostatní je americkýmu pohraničníkovi fuk. Jakmile ale přejdeme most, v jehož středu se třepotají americká a mexická vlajka, jsme v naprosto jiným světě. Opodál plotu z ostnat ...

My posts here were becoming more and more political; too political, I thought, for a travel site. So I started my own blog on Blogger, and then began writing for internet news sites as a citizen journalist. Upshot: I didn't update this Border Explorer blog last year upon our return to El Paso. The situation on the border ...

I had my heart set the whole trip on crossing over into Mexico and doing a little exploring. It just so happens that while I was on my scenic route to Juarez, all hell was breaking loose. So when I got to El Paso and spoke with my friend Mark about going to Juarez, all the bars and restaurants were closed due to the swine flu, and army hummers full of armed soldiers were patrolling the streets to keep the drug war at bay.

After not ...

My trip into El Paso started off innocently enough. I was scheduled to meet a friend at his bar (Pershing Inn, if ever in El Paso go check it out and tell Chuck I said hello). After a good little while at the bar the first night I turned out into the streets to see what kind of mess I could get myself into.

Some of the people from the Pershing Inn had given me some ideas of where to go, and eventually I wound up at some hotel bar ...

Well, here we go again. Another trip of a lifetime. Ernie and I leave El Paso this evening with our friends Mike and Clara Miles for The Grand Peninsular and Oriental 4x4 Adventure. We will arrive in Singapore on the 4th in the afternoon with our destination the famous Raffles Hotel. Our trip will be some 6,000 miles through Malaysia,Thailand,Cambodia,Laos, Vietnam and with a finish in Macau. We then will travel to Hong Kong for a couple of days for Ernie and the Miles's to see ...

On this, our second extended Border visit, we eschewed our corporate apartment living of 2007, instead joining the community at Casa Puente, home to new non-profit Project Puente and Earlham College's Border Studies Program. Casa Puente opened in Fall 2006, and last year we assisted with little projects around the house. It's a large, historic home that formerly served as a primary family residence and 3-4 ...

... Arts Hall S 3/1/2008 Sarasota FL Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall M 3/3/2008 Valdosta GA Mathis Auditorium T 3/4/2008 Columbus GA Rivercenter for the Performing Arts W 3/5/2008 Columbus GA ...

... apparently qualified.) I walked to the next bus stop so that I could get a feel for the neighbourhood. The town is really weird. There are huge mansions and then right next to them are run down shacks. After about an hour waiting in line to get back into the states-it would have taken longer if a lady on our bus had not bribed a driver to let us into line- we headed back to El Paso. I was just in time to catch my bus for Tucson.

Palm Sunday Mass at Annunciation House was particularly touching. We had the largest group in our brief history helping there on Sundays: maybe about 25-30 people. Maybe because all participants receive palms, more people came than usual. The palms were specially braided ones--perhaps from local branches--made in Ciudad Juarez. They were unique in my experience and ...

Day Six Today after a 4 AM wake up call, we headed out early in order to get to White Sands National Monument. We left too early for breakfast, so we pulled over at 8:30 to eat cereal at a state forest in New Mexico at an elevation of 8,500 feet. As we left the bus, we were surrounded by a cloud of small white moths - it was cool! The temperature early in the morning was over 100 degrees, but as we climbed ...