Monday, May 2, 2011 – Today was day 1 of our drive. We left El Paso around 1330 and drove over to the Santa Theresa border crossing.
Had a very simple immigration process.
We then drove south to Villa Ahumada took an east-southeast turn toward Buenoventura and then south through the hills to one of the Mennonite camps called Campo 77.
We are overnighting with a wonderful Mennonite couple Nancy and Neil.
These folks are wonderful! They are farmer/ranchers here along with many other Mennonite families in the area. They are also building a resturaunt out on the highway where they will raise funds to assist missionaries.
They fed us a phenomenal soup for dinner along with fresh tortillas and banana-nut bread. It was delicious!!
Timothy, Josiah, and I got to watch Neil feed the horses and cattle as well.
We’ll grab some photos of the ranch area tomorrow morning and will eventually post those on our Shutterfly site.
Not sure when this post will actually get uploaded, but I will upload it as soon as I can.
Blessings all and goodnight from Campo 77!