Ramada Inn El Paso

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>

... home, nestled on the sandy outskirts of El Paso. They had one of those cool bathrooms where there&#8217;s loads of amusing literature pined on the walls. It really was a nice place to be; also Charley&#8217;s huge workshop was great to prep the bikes for Mexico. I was lucky enough to rest my head in the pop up caravan/trailer. We all had a great time, cooking at home and going out for Chinese buffet dinner. Karin and Martin have gone back to the Netherlands for a few weeks to see ...

... but fragment the crime gangs and make them more violent. <br><br>But right now the immediate problem in Ciudad Juarez is to restore order and state control in the city. For the moment a growing number of Mexican citizens is buying a house in El Paso, to escape the most dangerous city in the world.Francesco Defferrari <br><br><br>

... deliberation at all, we decided it would be worth it to try to see if we could get some tacos and beer in Juarez. It was a rather surreal experience at first. Everyone in town was wearing paper masks, and lots of people had guns, and there was a protest going on because they had shut down the restaurants. <br><br>It was pretty difficult to find what we sought after, but we found a little hole in the wall place that was still open for tacos ...

... moest zijn. Ik belandde dus al snel in et hostel waar ik slechts 1 nacht had geboekt, wa derna ging gebeuren was een vraagteken. Na al men baggage te hebben gedropt en wa te hebbe gerust gingek is op verkenning in et centrum da trouwens op minder als ne km van juarez ligt, ook wel gekend als the city of dead :-), wegens meer moorden dit jaar dan in Irak. Yeah i know im really good at picking places. Twas zondag en alles lag er wa verlaten bij. Nog altijd zo goe als geen blanken ...

... Securing the border" is a stupid term that just means speeding up this vicious cycle. Each year, hundreds of people die trying to cross the southern borderlands, walking north for a better life. Still, it is very rare for humanitarian aid organizations like No More Deaths to find a deceased migrant in the desert. It only happens about once a year. I guess this year my friends and I are the unlucky ones. I'm not writing this message asking for ...

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... to El Paso where we stayed at Ernest's Aunts house. For the record Ernest has been a huge help to us on the trip, we has really been like our Central Headquarters, between getting us set up w/ Marriot Hotel rooms at great rates, helping us w/directions and helping me get my resume out there. His mom and Aunt were nice anough to open there home to us and were great hosts, so I can see where he gets his nice streak from.

... and Betrayal' by Los Tigres del Norte - a narcocorrida Chihuahua is a pleasant enough city to spend a couple of days adjusting to the pace of Mexican life. Ambience wise, it feels like a large country town surrounded by mountains and desert - unpretentious with a hint of dereliction. White cowboys hats are the height of fashion amongst men. In the main shopping street mariachis entertain the crowds while Indian women dressed in colourful garb sell their handicrafts So ...

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 ...