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Fat and thin
Thank you to all once again for your kind comments which are very much
appreciated.
The first evening John and I flew into El Paso, we walked a short distance
from our hotel to a nearby restaurant. I glanced at the map and looked across
the freeway to the thousands of twinkling lights just a few short miles away.
"That's Mexico", I said to John.
"No way!", he said.
I then showed him the map. Sure enough, we were right on the border.
It was a pretty sight with the mountains in the background.
The next morning we hopped on a bus and made a visit into El Paso's
twin city across the border, Juarez. Going south, no authority on either side
of the border stopped us. We knew that gettig back would be a somewhat
more scrutinized procedure, on the US side at least.
"Figure they will let us back in?", asked John as the bus crossed the trickle
that is the Rio Grande.
The first of the two photos below I snapped from in front on the Holiday Inn in
El Paso, Texas. The second photo, in juxtaposition, was taken in Juarez, Mexico.
Best Regards
Gary
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