Juarez Mexico

I thought that I had better get some updating done on the blog. After leaving Alabama we headed back south through Mississippi and then west through Louisiana, Texas (yes it does take days to get through it) and into Las Cruzes New Mexico.
The RV park was lovely...I adore the architecture of south.
Daniel eating breakfast outside with a awesome fire. They burn a wood there called Pinion wood. The aroma of the smoke is amazing...very down south smell of cowboy campfires.

Some more pretty architechure. This is heading into the mineral spa...awesome at night with the stars shining so nicely in the big sky....

One day, we hopped onto the "borderjumper" (yes it is really called that) and headed into Juarez Mexico. Now that, is a step back in time...lol. You travel over the Rio Grande and arrive in Juarez where you can "trip" around the Mexican village and check out all the stores and markets and beautiful churches. We had an awesome lunch at a restaurant (which I forgot the name of) but they made great margaritas and the food was YUMMY.
This was huge prawns wrapped in bacon and baked in the oven. Somehow, the bacon in Mexico is so good.
The central market. These are always fun to go to. Especially with Daniel as he can get the Mexicans bartering like crazy. To the point that they usually want him to work for them!!!! A beautiful pinata....how fun would that be for the kids hey? Me included.Some funny looking dolls we saw along the way...

Our great bus driver. He took us back across the Rio Grande back into the US...very freindly fella. The bridge is filled with cars, trucks, buses and a large amount of pedestrians crossing from both sides of the border...lots of folks on foot. The line up to get into the USA was huge but since we were on a tour "bus" we got to go to the front of the line...thank god. It would have been a long wait.I know that the Rio Grande sounds so BIG but this is it...at the border crossing the river has been diverted farther back west to help with irrigation of the farm lands on both sides of the border.Notice the sign, USA to the right and Mexico to the left....that is the divider. Weird hey???

It was a funny adventure....