El Paso: Worth Stopping For

Speaking of places you may be tempted to drive through without stopping, let's take a look at El Paso, Texas.

Ordinarily I avoid Texas -- I'm still traumatized by my horrible year in Hell-fer-Sartain -- but El Paso is on the far western end of the state, with New Mexico one one side and Mexico on the other, and 80% Hispanic, so I'll give it a pass.

Besides, it has a lot of interesting cultural monuments.











Like the Ysleta Mission, the oldest continuously occupied mission in the U.S.,founded in 1680

The El Paso Museum of Art has an exhibit about the Mexican Revolution.
Plus more museums, ballet, theater, and a film festival. 







And 274 Mexican restaurants.  Fancy a chili relleno burger?











A gay neighborhood with a community center, a Metropolitan Community Church, and about a dozen gay bars.  No sauna.



















Five public high schools, Lutheran, Jewish, Catholic, and fundamentalist high schools, a community college, and the University of Texas at El Paso. 

This wrestler is from Franklin High (Copyright Wrestlingtexas.com).



















More Franklin High.
















I don't know where this one is from, but he's won some awards.
















As has this Bodybuilder of the Week.