Today marks the 2 week anniversary of my stay here at El Paso, Texas. What better way to celebrate it than to go on a walk on through a scenic drive, eat guava pastry, go for a swim after being out all day and coming home sweet home to make a home cooked meal plus some leftovers?
The ladies and I decided to take two buses to reach one end of the scenic drive. We began our long walk on a cool breezy day. Matter a fact if there was any day to walk on a tiny sidewalk with cars and have the sun be over you every second for over an hour, it was today. I honestly haven't seen such good weather in so long. It made me wanna be an El Pasoian (I totally made that up). As we continued our walk, we got closer and closer to downtown. We made a couple of touristy stops that allowed us to take scenic pictures. In between our travels we would occasionally stop and break out into complete horror and then uncontrollable laughter. For instance there was one point during our walk when Sarah yelled out of nowhere. Normally, mine and Laura's natural response is to scream as loud as we possibly can regardless of the fact that we have no idea about why Sarah yelled in the first place. Once the hysteria calmed down, Sarah pointed at the ground and spotted a lizard that appeared to be dead. And then the loud laughter occurred and remained there until we continued our walk.
When we first began our walk, we passed by the poorer side of town filled with not so great looking houses, but as we ended the scenic drive, we passed by huge house mansions with beautiful plants surrounding them. The disparity between the hour walk was huge. It made me think of the difference between the two cities, El Paso and Juarez. We knew how close we actually were to Juarez since we used a mountain in Juarez that had the words "Juarez, La Biblia es la verdad. Leela" (Juarez, The Bible is the Truth. Read It) imprinted on it. Its so crazy how two cities so physically close to one another are so different in so many ways. El Paso is ranked at the second safest city in the United States, whereas Juarez is ranked one of most dangerous. And here we were, in between both cities. It was surreal.
So my two week anniversary at being in El Paso marks the observation of two neighboring cities viewed from a mountain full of lizards and cactus. Hands down, it will be walk I will always remember.
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