Today's photo of the week goes back to my trip in July. I have a whole lot of photos from that trip that I haven't shared, but don't worry, I'm not going to bombard you with them now! Towards the end of the trip, I woke up one morning with the sunrise out my coach window over southern New Mexico. Around breakfast time, the Sunset Limited crossed the Rio Grande and into Texas. There is a very short segment of Texas where the Rio Grande borders New Mexico and not Mexico, and that is where the train crosses the river. Shortly after crossing into Texas, the train makes a stop in El Paso:
There are a few places in this area where the train is a few feet from the river and the Mexican border. The Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, directly across the river from El Paso, is a much different looking city. I won't go into the details or start an opinion war about immigration by comparing the two, but it was certainly interesting to see the two cities side by side. I did not go over the Ciudad Juarez, I stayed near the train station, which is the brick building with the tower in the right side of the photo.
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