Blogs from El Paso, Texas, United States, North America - page 4

Since my last blog, our roadtrip has taken us through the Grand Canyon (immense), into Utah to visit Zion, Bryce and Arches national parks, across to Denver, Colorado, where we headed to Rocky Mountain national park, and then to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where hispanic, native American and anglo cultures collide. We left Santa Fe yesterday morning, and by the evening we'd arrived at our current location - El Paso, Texas, a city that sits on the US/Mexican border. Said farewell to Marc this morning as he's heading back towards LA, so I'm on my lonesome once again, and carless. In total I spent about two weeks travelling with Marc. We had an awesome time, and had similar ideas about where we wanted to go, and what we wanted to see. Tomorrow, I'm planning on jumping ... read more

We had a look around the 'beautiful' El Paso :p Ok, it's just a boring border town, but it did have an enormous market area, reminded me of Cheetham Hill in Manchester, apart from the Mexicans, of which there were many. We walked down to the border crossing, unfortunately we didn't see anyone rush the border, in fact they just seem to let droves of cars through. They are all coming one way, of course. Had a look round the flea market, had lunch at Taco Bell, a huge fast food chain selling Mexican food with the cheapest Burritos this side of the border. In fact we preferred the taste over the food we ate in Mexico. To be honest we weren't that impressed by the traditional Mexican food, the Tacos tasted a bit odd and ... read more