A Cross Country Gastrointestinal Journey

Breakfast: Coke, coffee and potato burrito from a local stand. Yay!!! I love potatoes in Mexican food.
We drove around to different missions in El Paso. The blistering sun made us stop for a drink. I had a strawberry Fanta and a bag of Reese’s Pieces. The pieces were gone by the time we got to Mesilla, New Mexico. A little town with a square of restaurants and stores. We went to Peppers Restaurant, but it is also called the Double Eagle. I think it has one name during the day and another name at night. While eating there I realize that this is where my brother and his wife got married. I gave my sister a tour and recounted the event of about 5 years ago. I had tortilla soup as I was not super hungry. I had a Pepsi which I hate, but this one didn’t taste too bad, maybe I was imagining it was a coke and the mirage showed up on my tastebuds. The soup was good and it wasn’t too hot, but I kept coughing like a dork because I had a tickle in my throat. People were looking at me like I was some wimpy white person who can’t eat spicy food. It looked like I was over-reacting to the spices, but just a cough.
We found a shop called the Chocolate Lady. I bought a chocolate covered marshmallow. It was HUGE. On the car ride home I at it and I got a little sugar-shocked about 1/3 of the way thorugh. But I had to push through–it cost 2.50! The marshmallow inside was pink and it had a little strawberry flavor. I took a swig of left-over strawberry Fanta to wash it down. Problem was the Fanta had been in the car for 3 hours. I think it was about a 90 degree drink!
My sister-in-law made green chile enchiladas for dinner. I was very good and it was my first time having green chile enchiladas, I’ve usually had the red chile ones.
My brother took us around El Paso after dinner. We went by Fort Bliss Army Base. We went up some mountains and saw the sunset. He showed us Juarez City in Mexico from afar (it is too dangerous to go there because of a drug war). He showed us the Rio Grande, which is not even a stream because it is so dry right now. I also saw our tax dollars at work with the border fence. I guess we do need the fence since there is not treacherous river to swim through. My favorite is seeing the big fence and then 5 feet later there is no barrier–hello, they can just go around! We went to another mountain and it was dark so we saw all the city lights below. The mountains and desert are very pretty.
On the way back to the house we had a hankering for Krispy Kreme doughnuts. I had a strawberry glazed. My body is not objecting to my food choices–yet.
Who knows what food discoveries I’ll make tomorrow.