{"id":15002,"date":"2018-04-05T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wohutravels.us\/?p=15002"},"modified":"2019-03-26T09:50:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T14:50:45","slug":"day-1-msn-el-paso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/?p=15002","title":{"rendered":"Day 1 MSN&ndash;El Paso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TommyG picked George and me up at O\u2019 dark thirty (6:00am) and we were soon on the way to Mitchell Field in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"020\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/020_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"020\" width=\"1004\" height=\"567\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, George had his portable scale along and weighed his bags one more time before checking in for the flight. Southwest allows two checked bags for free and his were both right at 50 pounds. The one he is weighing contains his bike!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"021\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/021_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"021\" width=\"1004\" height=\"567\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An one hour layover in Houston and it was on to El Paso where when we exited the plane and it was a LOVELY 83 degrees with a slight breeze. DELICIOUS!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/022.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"022\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/022_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"022\" width=\"1004\" height=\"567\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are at the Hyatt Plaza Hotel for two nights and will be picked up by the tour leaders on Saturday morning . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/023.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"023\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/023_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"023\" width=\"1004\" height=\"567\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>. . . big room. The G checking out the view. You can see all the way to Mexico one way and to Costco the other way!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"024\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/024_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"024\" width=\"1004\" height=\"567\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have been \u2018on the wagon\u2019 for the last three days and promptly fell \u2018off the wagon\u2019 with the announcement of \u2018Happy Hour\u2019. Three versions of happy hour later . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"025\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/025_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"025\" width=\"1004\" height=\"567\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>. . . Roberto, our personal shuttle driver, gave us a ride to Carlo\u2019s and Mickey\u2019s the #7 rated restaurant in El Paso. Food was great and beer was cold. When George asked how much a Mexican beer was we all thought the waiter said $14.50. George said he would think about it for a while. He asked again and it ended up being $4.50 . . . lost in translation. Bottoms up!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"026\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/026_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"026\" width=\"1004\" height=\"567\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>. . . and there was entertainment!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/027.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"027\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/027_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"027\" width=\"1004\" height=\"758\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>. . . we needed a little exercise so decided to walk back to the Hyatt. Oh . . . the county is hiring. Free benefits!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/028.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"028\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/028_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"028\" width=\"1004\" height=\"567\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are thinking of going to the range tomorrow for a little \u2018shooting up\u2019 at this place. Only 1\/4 mile from our place . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/029.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"029\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/029_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"029\" width=\"1004\" height=\"567\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>. . . mixing God with Guns . . . sounds like Texas!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TommyG picked George and me up at O\u2019 dark thirty (6:00am) and we were soon on the way to Mitchell Field in Milwaukee. Of course, George had his portable scale along and weighed his bags one more time before checking in for the flight. Southwest allows two checked bags for free and his were both &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/?p=15002\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Day 1 MSN&ndash;El Paso<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018bigbend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15002"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15029,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15002\/revisions\/15029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}