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Trip Start Mar 10, 2007
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Where I stayed
Rescue Mission of El Paso
The Gateway
(El Paso hotels)

Flag of United States  , Texas,
Thursday, March 13, 2008

Scuttled out of the hotel and did what I had to do, by God - I grabbed my gear took the choking bus up the hill and walked that desolate sky down to the Rescue Mission of El Paso. Like a yellow puss filled cancer it grew out of the festering cracked dirt of the feathered edges of this nowhere Tex-Mex town. Outside the wind howled and dust blew as old rail riding pete men and desolate fallen angel hipsters sat blinking in that God awful bright glare sniffing and sucking on rollies. Entering the dilapidated building the smell alone was enough to knock a vulture offa a dung wagon. Hacking and coughing of halitosis hung in the air like a thick fog. Ran into some old traveling buddies, though and talked and spat on the cracked ground - smoking smoking smoking. Dinner was puke on a plate and as night crept the damn joint was full of steaming hobos so I was issued a spot on the tiled floor in the television room wrapped in rags and spent the better half of the night swatting off cockroaches and bed bugs until coughing up the predawn cold. Gulped down three mugs of Victory Coffee - standing outside shivering and smoking - and waited to be processed by hostile idiot desk clerk. He glared and he sneered with animal stupidity - queer for certain but as attractive as a wet mop. Will sit here on my rusty dusty until the first of the month and then it is head first into J-town
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