Concordia Cemetery - El Paso, Texas

So one of the things we decided to do on our family trip in El Paso was to visit Concordia Cemetery.  You know, only the best family fun-time activities for us!  Actually, this place was awesome - seemed to be full of history, and vastly different setting than the cemeteries that I'm used to!


The grave of John Wesley Hardin, an outlaw and a gunfighter.  He was shot to death at the age of 42 at the Acme Saloon in El Paso.





It was a really interesting visit, and we learned a bit of the history of the city.  Maybe it would have been nice to have had a guide show us around and tell us about some of the people buried there - there are lifetimes of history there.  I hear they also have a really great Dia de los Muertos celebration there.  Maybe another year!

A map of Concordia Cemetery (from their website):

Are You for Real?!

This is what I would like to call an "El Paso Portrait" - find the biggest tumbleweed ever, and pose by it while sitting on a rock.  Be sure to get some mountain in the background.  Blue sky is always a nice touch.

But seriously - I've never in my life seen a tumbleweed until this trip.  They're real!  Not just in cartoons and old movies!  So, before the 'tumbleweed collection truck' could come by and scoop it up (I kid you not - there was a truck going around collecting them), we posed for our photos.  This was near the post exchange on Grace's base, and while we were getting our photos some man walked out of the PE, looked at us and said "Are you for real?" in a surprised voice.  Apparently they are not as exciting, and lose some appeal, after you've been in El Paso for three years (is what he told us...).  Sure was exciting for us though!

Scenic Drive in El Paso

Yesterday we took a beautiful jaunt along Scenic Drive in El Paso during sunset/dusk.  It was a really amazing view of the city, and beyond that the Mexican border.  I had a bit of fun climbing among the rocks to get some pictures of the cacti - I've never really been to a desert before, so it's cool to see the desert flora.