Van Horne to El Paso, Texas
November 28,2018 to December 4, 2018
Up early and on our way to El Paso, Texas, memories of my mother come to mind. She liked Marty Robbins, the singer, and had his LP that I use to listen to when she played it or when he came on the radio. I loved the song El Paso so I'm extra excited to be visiting this city.
As we travel through along the Interstate 10 when I get a text message informing me of the $12.00 roaming charge from Rogers, which is for international not the US. It seems that the cell signal is weak in this area so close to Mexico that it's picking up Telcel from Mexico. I will have to chat with Rogers to ensure they don't charge me for Mexico.
We stop at a rest area where Texas meets New Mexico and take some pictures. I was on my iphone and booked a week at the El Paso West RV Park as we have some time before Jill and Rick fly down on December 5th. Time I will need to strengthen my leg muscles and work on my endurance before we do the Ride with rick for Parkinson cycle from El Paso to Austin.
I have a chat with Rogers and explain the situation and they remove the $12 for my next bill.
The RV park is almost full, we have electricity, water, free Wifi, cable TV if we had one. It also has the cleanest bathroom and shower area as well as a Rec Room with TV, pool table and laundry.
For the next week we ride our bikes the 20 mile return to Walmart for food, a 40.2 mile ride to Las Cruses, another 25 mile ride up to the Trek store, Cabella's, lunch and Walmart. There was one day we could not ride as there was a windstorm and our final ride of 36 miles to Rosa's Cantina a bar inspired from the El Paso song where we had lunch. I also got my first flat tire which Chris fixed in no time at all before we left the Cantina.
Tomorrow we meet up with the others for the cycle tour, Chris will be pulling SAG with the RV and I will be trying to get fit with the cycle. I just hope I can keep up with everyone.
The next part of my blog will be on Facebook as I need to have my cellphone on in case of calling our SAG driver.
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