El Paso city, on the Rio Grande. (You can almost hear the words to the old song here, huh)? There is almost 600 miles from San Antonio to El Paso. (548 according to the Texas map we picked up along the way). We are not in a real big hurry, so we stopped along the way and spent the night in an RV park outside of Balmorhea. Stopping before dark allowed us to grab a sunset picture and then a sunrise shot also. (Can you guess which is which)? I have hint for you. The one with the power pole is the sunrise. Unfortunately we couldn't move far enough right or left to get it out of view, so think of it as a marker. We headed out shortly after sunrise. The dogs had their breakfast and we had coffee. We couldn't get over the speed limit in Texas. 80 mph for cars and 65 mph for trucks and night time. We continued westward, along the Quitman Mountains. Do you see the Rio Grande?? We couldn't either. We needed to get closer to El Paso. There we got our 1st view of the Rio Grande. The center of the river is the boundry between the U.S. and Mexico. The mountains off in the distance are in Mexico. El Paso is a large industrial city, sprawled out through the valley, bordering the town of Juarez, Mexico. The Rio Grande is all that separates these two cities. Lots and lots of people live here. Lots and lots of traffic through the city. I would like to say it is the largest city on the border with Mexico, but our friend Linda was corrected when she posted this fact. Thus, I will refrain and we will move on.
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