We stayed in El Paso at the Ft. Bliss Famcamp last night and proceeded to get a late start this morning....but it isn't as if there is anything to get excited about seeing in this part of the world. We are currently about 50 miles east of El Paso and there is NOTHING out here. We can look to our right and see Mexico since we have been paralleling the Rio Grande and at times have come within a half mile of it. The Border Patrol is very much in evidence around here. Ooooh, we just passed a green cultivated field of something. Woohoo!!
On the advice of the famcamp host, we took a circuitous route to get back to I-10 this morning and it took us through part of Ft. Bliss which is a huge Army base, and it is getting bigger with construction as far as the eye can see. We were told there are about 40,000 troops being transferred here, and by the time you factor in dependents you are looking at about 100,000 additional bodies that will require housing and medical care.
The speed limit for cars is 80 and trucks are 70 during the day. We continue to 'truck' along at about 62. I think we have a rest area in another fifty miles or so and we will stop for lunch. Ciao
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