Today would be our last day in Texas for some time. We completed all those 880 miles from the Louisiana state line to the New Mexico state line. That's 1,408 km for all you metric people.
We are seeing a little higher hills/mountains, but they're isolated for the most part, not part of a range. This is a shot of one of those such hills/mountains.
We didn't have a lot of rain. It was sporadic and never really a downpour at all.
We drove by El Paso, Texas, which made me think of, and sing, that Marty Robbins song "Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl...". And then lo and behold, who do I see?
We thought Lee Trevino, the golfer, was from El Paso since there's a road named after him, but I checked...he was born in Dallas, Texas.
We saw quite a few of these both in western Texas and now in New Mexico. They look like cattle yards for cattle getting ready to ship out. There were lots of cattle around. Poor things.
Ok, this is the reason for the title of this blog. As we approached the western edge of Texas, we know the Rio Grande flows along the border between Texas and Mexico. We can see Mexico. This is exciting. We've never seen the Rio Grande. We keep looking for it, but the land is flat until the ridge (which is in Mexico). We know we're going to cross it after we get into New Mexico and start heading due west again. Here is the bridge!
What???? I put more water through my body today than is in this river. Talk about a disappointment. No wonder we couldn't see it! I suppose it gets wider as it heads nearer the mouth down at Brownsville. Sigh :(
We were stopped by Border Control as we're running parallel to the Mexican border. They just asked our citizenship and we carried on. I don't know why they didn't check us back in Texas along the Rio Grande. The Mexicans could have just run across the "river".
We arrived in Deming, New Mexico, and our RV park and are all set up. They've apparently had a lot of rain here. It's a relatively short drive to Tucson tomorrow. Nice to be finally arriving at our final destination.
Oh, and we're also now on Mountain time - so 2 hours behind all of you on Eastern time and 1 hour ahead of you on Pacific time. We crossed into this time zone about 135 miles from the western Texas state line.
We are seeing a little higher hills/mountains, but they're isolated for the most part, not part of a range. This is a shot of one of those such hills/mountains.
We saw quite a bit of this today too. The rain was falling...over there.
We didn't have a lot of rain. It was sporadic and never really a downpour at all.
We drove by El Paso, Texas, which made me think of, and sing, that Marty Robbins song "Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl...". And then lo and behold, who do I see?
We thought Lee Trevino, the golfer, was from El Paso since there's a road named after him, but I checked...he was born in Dallas, Texas.
We saw these weird things on a bridge in El Paso. Have no idea what they're all about.
And then we arrived in New Mexico! The Land of Enchantment.
And just in case we missed the first sign.
We saw quite a few of these both in western Texas and now in New Mexico. They look like cattle yards for cattle getting ready to ship out. There were lots of cattle around. Poor things.
And the first sign indicating our destination - Tucson!
Ok, this is the reason for the title of this blog. As we approached the western edge of Texas, we know the Rio Grande flows along the border between Texas and Mexico. We can see Mexico. This is exciting. We've never seen the Rio Grande. We keep looking for it, but the land is flat until the ridge (which is in Mexico). We know we're going to cross it after we get into New Mexico and start heading due west again. Here is the bridge!
What???? I put more water through my body today than is in this river. Talk about a disappointment. No wonder we couldn't see it! I suppose it gets wider as it heads nearer the mouth down at Brownsville. Sigh :(
We did see a roadrunner - but we didn't see Wile E Coyote behind him. I think it's the New Mexico state bird.
We were stopped by Border Control as we're running parallel to the Mexican border. They just asked our citizenship and we carried on. I don't know why they didn't check us back in Texas along the Rio Grande. The Mexicans could have just run across the "river".
We arrived in Deming, New Mexico, and our RV park and are all set up. They've apparently had a lot of rain here. It's a relatively short drive to Tucson tomorrow. Nice to be finally arriving at our final destination.
Oh, and we're also now on Mountain time - so 2 hours behind all of you on Eastern time and 1 hour ahead of you on Pacific time. We crossed into this time zone about 135 miles from the western Texas state line.
WOW, you guys are driving fools! Too funny about the Rio. Maybe they will get the rain and it will become Rapids now.
ReplyDeleteI was disappointed with the Rio Grande at Brownsville and Matamoros Mexico when I worked for Custom Trim out of Waterloo. I crossed the river hundreds of times and there it is the size of the Nith River in Ayr. The Mexicans walk across with bags of clothes on their heads...Al
ReplyDeleteSo you feel my pain, Al.
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