Day 17- El Paso to Ft Hancock

What a difference a day makes. Yesterday our hard ride ended with an entry into El Paso through what can only be described as post-industrial apocalypse moonscape. This morning in utter contrast we traversed a lovely neighborhood of older homes on our way directly through a quite modern downtown. We left El Paso riding in a generally southeast direction through pecan orchards and irrigated rich farmland along the Rio Grande River.

The ride itself was a delightful reward of a short route, light winds and flat terrain in contrast again to Sunday's effort. We are spending the night in the local high school gym and going to bed early in anticipation of a longer ride and return of headwinds tomorrow. Our chef, Ann, provided us a yummy Asian theme dinner. We had three self-contained cross country riders as guests and we encountered as women's bike tour that will be riding the same route with us for a few days.