A Long Drive to El Paso...

Spring Break finally arrived! We had been planning out a journey to the Grand Canyon for a while, and the middle of March seemed like an opportune time. The boys got the week off from school, I took off from work, and we all took off on the long drive north. Any drive out of Texas is a long drive though. It took us all of the first day just to get to El Paso. We'd never been that far west in Texas before, so it was all new sites and sounds for us. El Paso sits directly on the U.S. and Mexico border, so rolling into town you can see the river and Cuidado Juarez on the other side. We actually stayed a little farther up in Las Cruces, New Mexico, but we stopped in El Paso for a few minutes and checked out this state park in the Franklin Mountains. Called the Wyler Aerial Tramway, the park had a gondola that took you to the top of Ranger Peak with a great view of the city, Mexico, and three states. It was significantly colder at the top than at the bottom and the winds were a bit high, but it was a cool view of the sunset.