Favorite Store: Rapiditos Bip Bip, a local chain of convenience stores. Runner-up: Bif, which may sell pork and chicken, but definitely sells steak.
Favorite brand of cheese: Fud.
Our new house, luckily, has much better toilets. They’re mini-sized, but are an improvement over the splash-o-matics that we had in the hotel. Other Mexican features of our rental include: lots of floor tile, no dishwasher, a tiled carport, and an 18-wheel truck graveyard (AKA a yonque) out back. Our gated community is one square block with, as most have, a little park in the middle for kids and/or dogs. A Yorkshire terrier and a lhaso apso patrol the park during daylight hours.
To get to our colonia, you either drive past maquilas on both sides or skirt the border. You can clearly see buildings in El Paso as you turn down our street. It is very strange to be living less than a quarter-mile from the U.S…
While still in the hotel, the dog got a walk in Juarez’s Central Park once a day. Home to a large lake, about 200 ducks and geese, and many trees, it’s a nice place to escape the dust and heat. It even has a giraffe, whose paddock-mate is a stag. There is an another enclosure which housed some sort of predator, but he/she is long dead.
The park is often full of people, particularly after the hottest part of the day is over: students, joggers, duck lovers. There is a school for gifted children in the middle, a library and classrooms for kid karate and ladies' dance and yoga. You can also tour a cactus garden.
© 2006 http://cjmex.blogspot.com/
Favorite brand of cheese: Fud.
Our new house, luckily, has much better toilets. They’re mini-sized, but are an improvement over the splash-o-matics that we had in the hotel. Other Mexican features of our rental include: lots of floor tile, no dishwasher, a tiled carport, and an 18-wheel truck graveyard (AKA a yonque) out back. Our gated community is one square block with, as most have, a little park in the middle for kids and/or dogs. A Yorkshire terrier and a lhaso apso patrol the park during daylight hours.
To get to our colonia, you either drive past maquilas on both sides or skirt the border. You can clearly see buildings in El Paso as you turn down our street. It is very strange to be living less than a quarter-mile from the U.S…
While still in the hotel, the dog got a walk in Juarez’s Central Park once a day. Home to a large lake, about 200 ducks and geese, and many trees, it’s a nice place to escape the dust and heat. It even has a giraffe, whose paddock-mate is a stag. There is an another enclosure which housed some sort of predator, but he/she is long dead.
The park is often full of people, particularly after the hottest part of the day is over: students, joggers, duck lovers. There is a school for gifted children in the middle, a library and classrooms for kid karate and ladies' dance and yoga. You can also tour a cactus garden.
© 2006 http://cjmex.blogspot.com/
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