which begs the question, what exactly is the unfriendly way? the mexican way? (slightly off topic an american told me that in new york they drive scary because they are mean, in new mexico they drive scary because they are dumb). i have been to el paso. everyone is mexican, i mean everyone. i think i saw about two people in the city the whole time i was there who maybe werent. despite that fact there nothing of note in el paso, downtown is surprisingly interesting architecturally though, and you can still imagine it as a frontier town 100 years ago. i guess because it is still a frontier town. according to the rough guide sights are few but its dramatic location beneath mountains gives it a bold, wild west charm, but frankly the rough guide seems to say that about every place i pass through. my hotel/hostel does not seem to have been modernised in the past 100 years and still has a wooden telephone switchboard, lift with grill etc. so that was enough to keep me amused for a good while. apparently el paso is like old mexico. i went across the border to cuidad juarez to check out actual mexico, partly from lack of anything else to do, but i was to scared to do anything except from go to the mission and back. i seem to have developed the american condition of being petrified of mexico. the border patrols have been going nuts lately as well. they checked my bus to marfa twice. i think is must be something to do with that massive cannibis bust the other day. also i need to learn spainish. everyone talks to me in spainish and im not sure what theyre saying. i already ascertained that i dont look american but im pretty sure i dont look mexican either. i think the mexicans are convinced that one day the whole of the americas will speak spainish so people better wake up to the fact sooner rather than later. this is typically what happens when i get on a bus,
mexican chorus (in spainish, im guessing what theyre saying here as its al over one another) - this is the bus to presido! do you know this is the bus to presido?
me - er, yes, i think this bus goes to presido
mexicans - you! presido? why are you going to presido?
me - i'm going to marfa
mexicans - ah marfa, ah yes marfa, yes!
we then got to watch a western in spainish. i think it featured some mexicans trying to overthrow the spainish/british/whatever. i couldnt follow what they were saying but it had some good music to soundtrack the texas mountains to.
nb regards marfa and the chinati foundation, as requested i have written a special report which is a bit long to post here. ill probably type it up and then distribute it with photos school teacher style to those of you interested
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