What is there to do in El Paso?
Yesterday I was having dinner with some friends at Dos Coyotes (delicious food by the way) and we started talking about different colleges. I, as you hopefully know, am enrolled and excited to go to Chapman University this fall. However my two friends are seniors-to-be and are only now starting their college search. One friend said he would consider UT, which led the other friend to bring up our ongoing UTEP jokes. For those of you not familiar with Texas acronyms, UT refers to University of Texas in Autisn, while UTEP is that same thing… except the El Paso version with a 99% acceptance rate. Not to mention all those hardcore Miners fans.
This then transitioned into a brief conversation about El Paso and what there was to do there. As you should also hopefully know, I lived in El Paso for eight years. So I consider myself an expert on this border city. One of the friends argued that all El Paso has to offer is drugs and shootings. I had to disagree, explaining that El Paso really has two sides to it: the rich suburban West Side and the not-as-rich East Side. I also argued that there is plenty of things to do in El Paso. This of course led my friend to ask me to share an example. I was speechless…. what was there to do in El Paso? After all, when I lived there I was only a kid. My after school activities involved tennis lessons at Coronado Country Club, piano lessons at White’s Music Box, and the Boy Scouts.
The only thing I could come up with is Chico’s Tacos. No one should ever take a trip to El Paso and leave without having a bite at Chico’s Tacos. Imagine this greasy Mexican dish buried…. yes, buried…. within a sauce. But enough about Chico’s Tacos. What else is there? As a kid there’s plenty of places to go…. the Insights Science Museum always one of my favorites. But if I were to visit now as a young adult, what would I do there?
So now I have made it my mission to answer that. Since I don’t live there any more, obviously I can’t do much first-hand research. But I do know that this post will get sent to Facebook, and a good percent of my Facebook friends live in that good ol’ city. So to mi amigos del paso del norte, what is there to do in El Paso? Comment below!
