[Background: After the crash/fall on 4/13, with additional reflection by Lani on 4/14, we're becoming a road trip until we get to Washington state. Today, I am to take the Greyhound back to El Paso and return in a rented car that we can drive, one-way to the Northwest.]
Up, oatmeal cooked on the butane in the motel bathroom (note to self: look for microwave-safe cook wear), packed and walking to the alleged Greyhound stop at a Chevron about 1.3 miles away (there’s no taxi service in Deming) I was anxious about what the day held.
Armed with the information provided by Greyhound's automated phone service, I moved briskly down Deming's main road in the cool morning sun towards the Greyhound station at a alleged Chevron station. In transit, just to confirm, I called several times the local Greyhound number; no one answered. Wielding my iPhone and summoning the Google, I located the Chevron number at the same address as the alleged Greyhound and called. I was informed that the automated Greyhound number had given me the wrong address for the bus stop. Hey...Greyhound, was this a joke?...how many others had been similarly deceived? The nice lady at the Chevron station gave me the correct address. I diverted.
The 9:30am pick-up was only off by 4 hours, delayed by an overturned semi on I-10. So, instead of being back in Deming by 2pm and leaving for Phoenix that day, I was now looking at another night in Deming. Marvelous.
The bus ride itself to the Greyhound terminal in Deming was unremarkable. And, after a taxi ride, I found myself at the same car rental area at the El Paso airport I had used just 5 days ago.
You can see the 108 mile route of I-10 from El Paso, TX back to Deming HERE. The highlight of this vast desert expanse were the industrial farms which stood in stark contrast to the hundreds of miles of free-range cattle we saw in our route across Texas.
The U.S. Government passes a farm bill at 5-year intervals that subsidize industrial farming, distorting our diet and affecting our health. Cheap corn produced here has a negative effect on emerging, 3rd World economies, contributing to poverty.
The bus ride itself to the Greyhound terminal in Deming was unremarkable. And, after a taxi ride, I found myself at the same car rental area at the El Paso airport I had used just 5 days ago.
You can see the 108 mile route of I-10 from El Paso, TX back to Deming HERE. The highlight of this vast desert expanse were the industrial farms which stood in stark contrast to the hundreds of miles of free-range cattle we saw in our route across Texas.
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| Before you buy your next steak or package of ground meat, you might want to read up on factory farming. Existing only because of government farm subsidies, it features animals in close quarters and heavy antibiotic use. |
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| Your ability to supersize your Whopper comes at the expense of impoverished farmers in emerging economies. It also means that your fast food, as well as anything where the ingredients label say "partially hydrogenated soybean oil" is tax-subsidized. |
So, another day, was pretty much wasted.
On the other hand, it gave us another chance to look for some authentic New Mexico cuisine, which we found at Campos Restaurant in Deming. I had a great chimichanga (essentially a deep-fried burrito, the origin of which is steeped in Mexican food lore) with green chile. (Green chiles are those that are picked unripe; they are fire-roasted, then peeled before further use.) Yum.
There are a lot of dairies in the area. That may have been what you were passing.
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