El Paso Texas

10–14th Feb

We left the camp site at Guadalupe Mountains on Sunday morning.  Unfortunately we will never know how the other Hikers/Campers fared on the Mountain that night, in the high winds and freezing weather temperatures. We can but assume they were experienced and knew what they were doing.

We drove to El Paso through the Salt Flats and past the Hueco Mountains.  We camped at Anthony just a mile from the state line with New Mexico on the north western edge of El Paso. 

 

 

The camp site was conveniently situated behind Camping World so that we could have the generator checked as it has not been reliable recently. We found out that the altitude setting on the carburettor had been set to zero, so all this time we have been travelling under the sea. Paul also bought and fitted two new AC roof vent covers as one had blown away in the high winds and the other one wasn’t looking too good either.

We used this week to do some maintenance and admin etc.  We took a trip out one day around and then over the Franklin Mountains. 

El Paso is a V-shaped city that has spread around the southern end of the Franklin Mountains next to the Rio Grande.  On the other side of the river is Mexico and the city of Juarez.  The two cities seem as one continuous urbanised sprawl.  From a view point on the Mountain side we saw queues of traffic at one of the bridge border crossings.

 

The weather has been lovely sunny days at around 15C but the freezing temperatures at night have meant frozen pipes every morning. Sunset has given us some spectacular photos.

We have also seen what can happen when fire gets a hold of an RV. Fortunately the owners were away so no-one was hurt. The fire was started when the battery’s over heated.