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houston to chihuahua

MEXICO | Wednesday, 24 October 2007 | Views [392]

hola, como estas.

and after 8 years in spanish class .probably more actually.  what ive learned is... i still dont know a damn thing, besides all the cuss words of course! sad but true...... i was raised in texmexico, what do ya expect! 

a few days ago matt and i left downtown houston (probably the seediest of all the places we have been thus far) and loaded up on the unknown Amtrak.  We rode through the beautiful texas countryside finally reaching El Paso an enjoyable 20 hours later.  We started bargaining right away, and got a $15 discount at the Holiday Inn (who thought you could bargain in the states? well... then again, im not so sure that el paso is in the states still.... you can count the gringos on one hand) anyhow, el paso was actually an enjoyable town (from what we saw from a quick walk to the nearest ATM)...

and then... we walked across the bridge!   we got off the bridge (only being stopped to pay the 2 peso bridge toll)... and there we were in Juarex Mexico, home to 350 missing women, drug cartels, and .... well, a serious lack of a prominent immigration office.. at least it seemed.  We literally got over the bridge and had to search around for awhile to find somewhere to check us into the country, it was quiet the task.  you would think that after traveling so much recently we´d be on the ball, at least in these sorts of situations, but there we were... never fails... looking like silly white tourists once again! (hey- at least were consistant)

then 5 hours through the desert and ...

Chihuahua Mexico, a wonderful town in the midst of the chihuahuan desert.  Located in a lovely valley with rocky dry mountains surrounding a beautiful little plaza with a gorgous ancient cathedral and a plethora of brightly colored cowboy boots made from ostrich, alligator, gringos, whatever they can find, and always adorned with an enormous hat.   we found an average hotel for a few nights.  where I did manage to master the art of yelling at the top of my lungs "shut up, i cant sleep" a few times  in spanish to the blarring latino music (and the mexican singing along as loud as he could) at 2 am, which i was pretty proud of.  

We rode the train a few hours today, heading deep into a canyonland known as the barrance del cobre.   We departed in the Tarahumaran town called Creel at 7500m, with cool rock formations and friendly brightly colored indigenous people wandering around.  Tonight after dinner, on the walk home I managed to play the one mexican song i knew for a group of mexicans!  i took the laughing to be a sign that they were amused... i assumed it was similar to a big german singing "hear comes the sun" in a strong chu and ghu accent... now that would be pretty funny!

hasta luego amigos! te amo bendejo (haha)..ADIOS!

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