Trinity Summer Casas Trip - Friday July 8, by Mara Erhardt
Today Pastor Mark, Rudy Deutchman, Kelly Mead, Troy Gould and Sarah Trexler, and I drove 11 hours down to El Paso, TX in the church van. Though most people leave late afternoon Friday or early Saturday morning to reach El Paso by dinner time Saturday night, the church van needs to be down in El Paso earlier in order to go food shopping and run other last minute errands to make sure we are ready to go on Sunday.
The drive down was mostly uneventful and frankly a little boring. The first 7 hours flew by and before I knew it we were more than half way there. The only excitement came when Rudy suggested a new route that looked like a straighter path down to Alamagordo. In the end, it did save us some time, but for the first 45 minutes we were going only 40 mph (the optimum speed being 75-80 mph) through a windy mountain road that was poorly paved and even more poorly maintained. We all gave Rudy a hard time for his poor choice in roads and he said he will never live it down. And soon it did straighten out and we were making good time again.
We got in to El Paso around 7pm and had a late dinner. Tomorrow, we are going food shopping and later we might go visit a Lutheran Church down in Juarez.
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