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Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Journal Entry #4
After several hours of driving, we arrived in El Paso, Texas last night. We wanted to get to the Rio Grande River to see Mexico, but because of traffic, and the border area being built up with double wire fences with razor wire on the top and water filled ditches in between and security patrol vehicles, we couldn’t get out of the car! I did take some fast photos from the car window. We could see some homes though. It looked pretty bad. Basically, they looked like shoeboxes. It reminded us a lot of the shacks we’ve seen in Jamaica. On the US side, the homes were a little better.
We had a wonderful drive from San Antonio to El Paso. We took quite a few pictures that we will send on to you later. The weather has been absolutely beautiful here. The temperature range has been from 65 to 75 degrees. Once again we are amazed at God’s creation. We drove from very flat land that was a little desert like to rocky hills with many goats wandering around to some distant mountains with beautiful colors on their peaks. We keep remembering the pioneers and wonder how in the world they could travel for days on end over this terrain and survive and thrive. At one point as we stopped at a rest center, just behind the fence were two large rams. I went right up to the fence and was able to take some pictures. It spooked them some and they trotted off to find other yummy brush to munch on! Another really need sight were the windmills.
There were a few places where we saw many electric generating wind fans. It was windy on our travels and we seemed to be going right into the head winds. Good for the wind fans, bad for the mileage! Really though, we were getting about 30 miles per gallon, so we are not complaining! Dad liked the 80 per hour speed limit.
Another big event was that we went to a car wash! My little white car was pretty dirty after going over 2000 miles. I thought it was fun because I had never been in a do-it-yourself car wash before. I got to feed in the coins and push the buttons. For me, that was fun!
I do want to apologize to the people who tried to call and visit us on our long drive. There was zero reception in most areas. But we are out of the desert today!!?? Try again as we make our trek to Phoenix. We will be spending the next couple of days at Rossows. We won’t get there until 5:30 or later tonight. We are now two hours behind Eastern Time.
We love and miss you all!
Journal Entry #4
After several hours of driving, we arrived in El Paso, Texas last night. We wanted to get to the Rio Grande River to see Mexico, but because of traffic, and the border area being built up with double wire fences with razor wire on the top and water filled ditches in between and security patrol vehicles, we couldn’t get out of the car! I did take some fast photos from the car window. We could see some homes though. It looked pretty bad. Basically, they looked like shoeboxes. It reminded us a lot of the shacks we’ve seen in Jamaica. On the US side, the homes were a little better.
We had a wonderful drive from San Antonio to El Paso. We took quite a few pictures that we will send on to you later. The weather has been absolutely beautiful here. The temperature range has been from 65 to 75 degrees. Once again we are amazed at God’s creation. We drove from very flat land that was a little desert like to rocky hills with many goats wandering around to some distant mountains with beautiful colors on their peaks. We keep remembering the pioneers and wonder how in the world they could travel for days on end over this terrain and survive and thrive. At one point as we stopped at a rest center, just behind the fence were two large rams. I went right up to the fence and was able to take some pictures. It spooked them some and they trotted off to find other yummy brush to munch on! Another really need sight were the windmills.
There were a few places where we saw many electric generating wind fans. It was windy on our travels and we seemed to be going right into the head winds. Good for the wind fans, bad for the mileage! Really though, we were getting about 30 miles per gallon, so we are not complaining! Dad liked the 80 per hour speed limit.
Another big event was that we went to a car wash! My little white car was pretty dirty after going over 2000 miles. I thought it was fun because I had never been in a do-it-yourself car wash before. I got to feed in the coins and push the buttons. For me, that was fun!
I do want to apologize to the people who tried to call and visit us on our long drive. There was zero reception in most areas. But we are out of the desert today!!?? Try again as we make our trek to Phoenix. We will be spending the next couple of days at Rossows. We won’t get there until 5:30 or later tonight. We are now two hours behind Eastern Time.
We love and miss you all!
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