Woke up before my alarm this morning and happened to look out my hotel window and get a pretty sweet view of an Odessa sunrise.
Got showered and ready and all things packed up, and was on the road at 9:30am. Stopped for gas once but otherwise powered through over and down to El Paso to pick up Friend #5 from airport.
Made it to El Paso airport just before friend's flight landed. Got to airport, parked and went inside with agenda of using restroom and seeing if a gift ship may have El Paso postcards. Turned out I was in luck for postcards -- and as I had just paid I saw friend walking by shop and was able to call out and catch in time.
We headed straight from airport to have lunch -- return visit for me to Ode Brewing.
After flight of beers, lunch, and a beermosa (don't recommend the beermosa), headed to the one night AirBnB. Ended up being a pretty sweet place -- Spanish adobe style 2/1 w/ good layout and lots of original character. Spent a little time getting situated but wanted to get back out soon to catch the scenic drive around/above El Paso before the sun set.
A few shots from the scenic drive around El Paso:
It took me a minute to be able to make out the letters on the mountains off in the distance in Juarez (the area on the other side of the freeway is Ciudad Juarez). It says "La biblia es la verdad. Leela." Translated: The bible is the truth. Read it.
Great sightlines for the area from where we stopped and parked. Eventually got back in car and then drove around the downtown. And then on out to east ELP area to check out newer part of the city and mall.
Ended up having dinner at the Grimaldi's in outdoor mall area. I hadn't eaten at one outside of NYC before. We weren't that hungry so ended up with half of the pizza as leftovers to take home.
Then back to house to relax and to plan out next day for drive up to Roswell. I had booked the Roswell AirBnB at Grimaldi's over dinner.
Ended up putting on Netflix since there was no cable TV at the house. Not long after initial searching came upon the Tidying Up with Marie Kondo Netflix show, on what's being called the KonMari method. Was funny that each Friend and I had heard about the show but neither had watched it. We put it on and found ourselves varying degrees of being annoyed with the first episode, showing the family of 4 with a 4 year old and a 2 year old. Made it through the first episode though, and went ahead with the 2nd one. Friend #5 called it a night halfway through 2nd episode. I stayed up and watched a full 3rd before shutting off tv for the night.
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