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| El Paso Saddleblanket |
We made it to Las Cruces on the afternoon of the 11th. The drive thru Eastern Arizona and Western New Mexico was the largest chunk of nothing that I'd ever seen. Miles and miles of nothing. Worse than driving thru the prairies. We amused ourselves by stopping at each 'tourist' trap along the way. We had the "World Famous Date Shakes" at Dateland, AZ (they really are amazing), along with some killer new variety of dates, we found locally grown pistachios, "Really Good Jerky" (it really was good!), and so on. Glad to be out of it tho!
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| El Paso |
Las Cruces is a great place - we got a good campsite and yesterday drove down to El Paso, TX to tour around the historic district and saw some awesome old architecture from the 1800's. Had to stop at another tourist attraction on the way - El Paso Saddleblanket - a 2 acre store full of TONS of blankets, rugs, jewellery, moccasins, hats ... and some good (and bad) Mexican pottery.
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| Margarita time! |
We had an awesome meal at a Mexican restaurant - thought it might be good as it was full of locals chowing down ... and then took the scenic route back to camp stopping at a winery along the way. Did some tasting, bought some wine and met some very nice people. Then back to our campsite for some much needed Margaritas!
The weather is nice and warm - up to 72F is today's forecast - but getting hotter as the week progresses. We're off to Whitesands today and some touring in that area. Should be fun!
Cheers!
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