Saturday, April 10, 2010

March 30 Las Cruces to El Paso 65 miles

After leaving Las Cruces, we rode through more pecan orchards and then little by little the terrain changed. We passed horse ranches, polo fields and more and more newer looking homes.


They are pretty darned serious about picking pecans - there were LOTS of these signs all along the road!

One of the little towns along the way had this lovely church and then just down the road from it an art school for sculpture.


We also passed a couple of wineries...


Once we reached the west side of El Paso it was much like riding through Phoenix - it's big and sprawling and took a couple of hours to ride from the west side of town to the east side, old down town El Paso is lovely, and seems to have some life as there was construction going on...



OH - we zigged when we should have zagged and ended up on a freeway skirting the Mexican border. The border patrol watched as we cautiously looked for an off ramp - YIKES! I'm glad we lived to tell that tale!

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