We are within 70 miles of El Paso where we will stay at Ft. Bliss Army Base if there is space available. It has been a very uneventful drive with nothing but a lot of god-forsaken country to look at. We made a side trip into the town of San Simon to find the post office which wasn't difficult. I think the population is about 500 and the website says the high school will graduate seven seniors this year. The local Catholic Church looked like it was held together with a lot of faith, and it was about the size of the Catholic Church in Steilacoom. It looked like a town forgotten, or perhaps a town never recognized since I couldn't even find much of anything on the internet. Ken thinks cotton was/is the local crop.
All around it is flat with nothing but brown grass and a few yucca plants here and there. Off in the far distance are occasional uprisings of rock and cinder, but it all pretty much blends into the mundane foreground. We haven't even seen any wildlife, dead or alive. Ciao
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