Monday, October 4, 2010
Cotton Valley RV Park, Clint, TX - Apr 1-2
This park is on the eastern outskirts of El Paso. We stopped for two nights to meet up with some friends from Wisconsin (we also met up with them for dinner in Alpine the previous week) and see a few sights in El Paso. We discovered that we were at the eastern end of the El Paso Mission Trail, so we followed it to 3 old Spanish missions from the 1600s: San Elizario, Socorro and Ysleta. Socorro is undergoing renovation -- removal of the cement-based coating applied with the best of intentions in the 1920s, but now causing the underlying adobe to decay. Ysleta was established for the Tigua Indians and is located on the reservation. Also on the reservation was a Mexican restaurant, run by the Tiguas, where we had lunch.We went to dinner with our friends at the "world-famous" Cattleman's Steakhouse. They had called ahead and found that they had fish & shrimp for us to eat! The restaurant is located on Indian Cliffs Ranch, where there are facilities for meetings, RV parking, hayrides, horseback riding, a children's zoo & snake pit, an old movie set, a lake, and several party facilities, spread out over many acres. The food was good and the grounds were fun to walk around after we had eaten. In the gift shop was a t-shirt with the slogan "Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter". We didn't buy one!
# posted by Doug and Willie @ 9:45 PM 
