El Paso, Texas into Arizona

As we drive into El Paso, we are surrounded by the Hueco Mountains.


The neighborhoods looked very nice cute homes and well landscaped lots.


Nice place to live, we stopped for gas and on the highway out of town we go!

Now we can see both borders, the United States- El Paso and the Mexican town abuting the Rio Grande River.

Now you can understand why so many people from Mexico try to escape their lives in Mexico. I just cannot imagine looking over the river and seeing what they cannot have.

We saw this wall separating the two contries, this is so hard to imagine seeing this everyday on my way to work or shopping. We have so much in this country.

So on ward we go, a sign up ahead, we are now entering New Mexico..

Now lots of people do not know or have ever been to a dairy farm, well this is just as far as you can go from "Real Dairy Farming" The sign says "Dairy Farming of America".

Looks like abuse to me, cows are kept in Pens, they get to lay in their own feces, and mud, wet, to get food they have to stick their head out thru the bars, to a trench where the feed is given to them. Not much of a life for sure, no roaming the hillsides, or laying on the dry ground in the sunshine. Good thing the milk is pasturized, I am sure they don't wash the whole cow for milking. The air on the highway smells foul as you pass by. We need to help the small farmers keep their farms and do away with this kind of a way to produce milk. If everyone saw this, I am sure they would be appalled as we were.

So we contined our drive thru New Mexico, just a small portion of the state, we hope to see more of it on our return trip to Quebec. A new sign up ahead, ah Arizona, and on to see some of my relatives.

There are groves and groves of these trees, Pecan is what they are, wish we were here when they pick the Pecan nut.

One of the rest areas in Arizona, most are closed because of the money shortages, there were these rocks, boulders really, just positioned so oddly. I thought this one looked like a whales mouth!

Well all set and ready for Phoenix, Arizona next.