Walk Across Juarez
Walk Across Juarez #7
I am smiling chuckling- we had so much fun there in Juarez. I am high in Copper Canyon along the train line in the little town of Areponapuchi. My room at Mansion Tarahumara is littered with scrawled papers, open books, dirty socks, half empty and stale tequila glasses…and I am deeply happy as I think [...]
Full StoryWalk Across Juarez #6: Next Year?
Back to El Paso Back to the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. It was no fun going back across the border. It never is. The smiles are gone. The welcome is over. It is good to be back to US soil- it always is. But something very vital and valued [...]
Full StoryWalk Across Juarez #5: Maquiladoras and Out
Day 3 in Juarez Sunday morning dawns bright across southeast Juarez. I want to get a good look at the new US Consulate facility today- right next to to this hotel. It is hard to walk in this part of town compared to other areas- it is modern, industrial and spread out. Still I want [...]
Full StoryWalk Across Juarez #4: Back Across the Great Divide
Day #2 dawns in Juarez. I awake early at the Hampton Inn and look out the window toward El Paso…not far away. Amazing I think…I have not heard gunshots or even thought about it. A siren whines in the distance- but my mind does not go instantly to some massacre happening. Could be I suppose. [...]
Full StoryWalk Across Juarez #3: This Great Distance
As the Donkey Plays the Flute There is this expression for things done haphazardly or serendipitously in Mexico- as the donkey plays the flute. Alfredo mutters this expression as we head back to the bridge to “begin” the walk. I really have no plan and want to just amble around and have a bunch of [...]
Full StoryWalk Across Juarez #2: Across the Bridge
Two weeks before the walk My right hand guide in Copper Canyon, Alfredo Murillo, lives in Chihuahua and is very familiar with Juarez and the situation there. I email him of my plans and ask for his input. I ask him if he could meet me at the El Paso airport and give me a [...]
Full StoryWalk Across Juarez #1: Anticipation
Walk Across What? Juarez has to be the LAST place any sane person would chose to even go to, let alone walk across. Most people assume that my body will end up filled with bullets, decapitated, and hung from some bridge with a scrawled cartel note tied to it. And that was what I thought [...]
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