During my solo trip to El Paso, it was very nice to access and go on this scenic drive. The city is…read morealready beautiful within itself as it is a West Texas town with the Franklin Mountains being so close that the eye can see. I was excited to travel on the long and winding road. The winds were strong once I got to the top. The view was very pleasant to see the whole city including parts of Mexico. The Mexico side was so colorful mixed in with the dusty desert climate. It wasn't crowded like the Blue Ridge Parkway scenic drive that I partook in while visiting Asheville, NC. There was plenty of parking at each point to stop to look. I loved this attraction!

It was spectacular during the day. I am sure that the view is standing at night with the lights of…read moreEl Paso.

What a fun evening, date night and good time Pop-up art…read moregalleries, with local artists selling cool El Paso flavor. Some places have their basements open and free beverages Others places have sell food. Take a free tour and learn about all the rich history El Paso has and I promise you you will see details of buildings you never saw before. I am always walking downtown and see the cr

I visited El Paso for a work trip, and was delighted to see that I'd be in town on the last…read moreThursday of the month. I took a free walking tour with Marcos, who helped create and has been leading the Last Thursday art tours for the last several years. The tour started at 6:30 from the central plaza/park in town, and we wandered around town for a good 2 hours or so. We got to see a bunch of cool art (I bought some neat stickers!), some music, and there were opportunities to buy food. My favorite part was learning about the interesting history and architecture of El Paso. I'm not an architecture buff, but those who are will probably be familiar with architect Henry Trost. He has a ton of neat buildings in El Paso, all very close together. I learned cool facts and trivia about El Paso on the tour that my friend who has lived there for 6 or 7 years doesn't even know! I highly recommend taking Marcos's Last Thursday tour!

i love this place , this venue have live concerts , the fair is set up here too , and art galeries…read more. or you can just come ride your skateboard and bicicles around , have a photo session etc .

View from El Paso. I have only viewed. It is most coolest at night all lit up bright red…read more Go to it in Mexico. Okay I am a fan it is definitely character building for the city of El Paso and something fun to look at. You can see it from many spots in El Paso. On the Border Highway you can drive by it the border fence is in the way of perfect viewing. Great viewing is also scenic drive and the Wyler tram. There is an outdoor arena and a website dedicated to the all the events Juarez holds. Some myths or facts you decide. 1. It is a symbol or homage to represent all those lost in the Drug Wars 2. There is a letters M-E-X-I-C-O spread all across the Mexican -American border. The "x" beginning in El Paso. The other letters are not as big. One day when the US threat level changes from 3 back to 2 I will visit in person. I LOVed to go to Juarez. I hope and pray it returns to what it once was

What a difference a year makes! The 2016 Sun City Bacon Festival really improved over 2015's, kudos…read moreto the organizers, and frankly to me, I deserve kudos for my honest and helpful review, so give me some darn kudos! (I suppose Tanya also deserves some amount of kudos, but I don't plan on sharing mine, GET YOUR OWN KUDOS!) Kudo politics aside, this year's festival just felt way better planned, there were more local restaurants participating with a plethora of creative bacony treats, and there didn't seem to be shortages like last year. The lines were way better managed, I think that using the piggybucks tokens really helped expedite transactions, plus we didn't experience the cash only nightmare of 2015. My favorites this year were the Bacon-wrapped wings from Crave, and the Maple Bacon Bread Pudding from Ode Brewery (that one was so good it actually did run out), plus Cabo Joe's 3 little piggies came back from last year, yum! Brass Monkey's bacon grilled cheese was not too shabby either. They also moved the stage which helped keep the noise from overwhelming you while you explore the festival, and they had more merch available, I even got a sweet piggy nose! I'm really glad that the festival improved, I am pro-Bacon and I'm not ashamed to admit it, but hopefully the organizers will not rest in their laurels and make it even better in 2017, and I'll be here ready to claim my rightful share of kudos.

I'm torn with this one. I LOVE seeing new (or borrowed) ideas in El Paso and Baconfest was a great…read moreone, but I HATE seeing poor, rushed execution. If this does truly become an annual event I'd love to see a whole lot more thought go into Baconfest and what it actually is. I'm glad I went because I do enjoy supporting events like this and showing that there is an interest for such an event in the area. Next year I would like to see a whole lot more. One of the biggest issues I had with this event was the vagueness. There was no website set up for Baconfest... sure they posted an article about it on the KLAQ website, but there was really no where for anyone to really find answers to some pretty important questions (i.e. What time is this event over?). They had a Facebook event page set up, but not a Facebook page and again it didn't answer any real questions people might have. The markup basically said: The event starts at 11 AM, there will be bacon, there will be a costume contest, and there will be a hog calling contest. It didn't tell you what time the event was over, if you could bring pets (it turned out you couldn't, but since that wasn't blatantly apparent I did see many dogs at the event), how do you enter the contests, what time are the contests at, who's bringing the bacon, what different variations of bacon will there be, what other vendors will be at the event, and what kind of just-for-fun things will be at this event? Finishing this review would just be easiest by answering those questions... so here goes. What time is the event over? 5 PM. There were even vendors that were asking patrons what time the event was over. Literally no one knew. Can you bring pets? They said 'no', but they didn't have anyone manning any of the access points or security for that matter so do as you please. I regret not bringing my little Charlie because she truly believes bacon is LIFE. How do you enter the contests? This still isn't incredibly clear to me, but it had to be done at the event (yup, there was no online form to sign up anywhere). I'm actually assuming it was either at the stage or at the Baconfest tent selling shirts. What time are the contests? Whenever they call them over the speakers on the stage so stay close to the stage if you're trying to enter something. The contests I saw only had about four people in them so chances of winning are high! Who's bringing the bacon? They literally never released a complete list of vendors. The only thing they listed were the restaurants that actually fell inside the bounds of the event. No duh! They had "VIP" available at The Garden that included three different bacon starters and two drinks (very vague though... what kind of bacon starters and drinks?). There were actually quite a few foodtrucks at the event like Sweet Addiction, Crave, and Sloppy Seconds that received absolutely no recognition or promotion prior to the event. What different variations of bacon will there be? Nope, they never even told you if Crave was just making regular bacon or bacon wrapped shrimp. They were making bacon wrapped shrimp (which was my favorite). There was also chocolate covered bacon (two different varieties... the price on one was a little high though), bacon sugar cookies, pork belly hush puppies, caramel bacon cashew marshmallow praline, waffle bacon, bacon pizza, bacon sushi, BLT sushi rolls, pork belly on a stick and more. What other vendors will there be? Not many unfortunately and the vendors that didn't have a bacon product didn't even do anything bacon related. Are you kidding me?! Can I get some bacon costumes or something? There was one vendor selling salsa. They were also giving samples, they could've easily served their salsa samples on top of a small slice of bacon. There was a lady selling body wraps... we're at Baconfest, we don't care about our figure right now. I think at most there was six other vendors, but they didn't even seem that involved in the event. What kind of just-for-fun things will be at the event? Other than the free photobooth, nothing. Literally, nothing. Sadly it was just a lot of shuffling from one long line to the next. I would've liked to see some game booths, a jumping balloon for kids, a bacon mascot that people would've tried to take pictures with... anything that could've broken up the lines a little bit and enticed me to stay after having my fill of bacon related products. It just felt like if you weren't eating bacon, it was time to go. Again, I'll go next year... I would just like to see more organization, not something that someone slapped together. There really is no excuse. It may have been executed in a month, but it could've been done better and honestly, the rush to do it in a month was their own... the El Paso community was not demanding this event be done NOW so the sloppiness falls on the heads of the event organizers.

Street Fest was one of my favorite events to attend in El Paso. They always had really good bands…read more Although it did get incredibly packed because of that. There were food, drinks, music and dumb drunk people! They had a good amount of security and police presence to help keep the rowdy bunch calm, so I generally never felt unsafe.

Interesting year this year for Streetfest. Interesting in a good way. Obviously every year the goal…read moreis to be bigger and better than the previous year and I'm excited to see where Streetfest will be in a couple of years. As far as I can tell *cough* find on Google *cough*, Streetfest has been happening since 2008. I'm not entirely sure if it's always been a KLAQ and KISS event, but it is now and the idea is to give two different kinds of "rock nights" (I don't know how else to describe the differences). This years headliners were Three Days Grace and the All American Rejects. Not exactly what the kids are listening to these days, buuuuuuuut they're ALMOST classic. And AAR was my gateway band* so of course I wasn't about to pass up on going this year. The main stage was near the convention center and strangely enough people weren't really packed in unless they were at the very front of the crowd. I didn't see any fights or mosh pits so it's totally cool to bring kids to Streetfest, but I will admit some people can be a little catty. Did a strange chick push me and give my an evil look while I was trying to make my way to the other side of the crowd? Yes. Did I react by shoving her back? No...because I'm a lady so I just laughed in her face and said "Chill, chick...you can't see over people's heads anyway." Moral of the story if you are taking children and you plan on being in the crowd, just stay vigilant. But for the most part you shouldn't have to worry about people getting too rowdy. The silent disco was probably my favorite small stage, but people really didn't make their way there. I still liked it just because you look ridiculous dancing around in silence. I may have Snapped my entire experience in the silent disco to every person in my phone. And in case you don't know what a silent disco is...it's an area where you you put on wireless headphones and jam out to whatever the DJ is playing. I was curious about how sanitary the headphones could be, but I like to believe they cleaned them between each use. I kind of go back and forth with how I felt about the vendor situation. I think there could've been more vendors with different things to do. I like games, man. There were only a couple with games like a basketball shooting one (similar to what you'd find in an arcade minus it being electric), a darts one, and fishing for bottles? one (you know where you have a pole and you have to set the bottle up right. I did spend a bit of time at the Oasis Mattress section because come on...they're TempurPedic mattresses, how can you pass that up?!? And the Photo Creative booth was one of my absolute fave booths which is why I jumped on backing them up at this event (talk to Beto H. is you're looking for a photobooth at your event)! Hilarious costume options and awesome graphics...everything I want in a photobooth. I think in the future they should seek more vendors that offer something to do because there is a lot of down time if you're just waiting for a specific band to play. The food surprised me because there were quite a few vendors I hadn't heard of which is always awesome! There definitely could've been more options and I think samples are a must. I'd say only three vendors were doing samples...I ate a ridiculous amount of kettle corn. My fave booth was the French Fry Heaven booth. They were basically making their debut at Streetfest, but the options had my mouth watering. Love, love, loved the Baked Tater fries! The drink situation was kind of a disappointment. Extremely limited for both soft drinks and beer and it appeared that a sponsor of the event was actually in charge of it. I just want to point out how absurd asking for a tip was when I bought a 7-Up. They literally pulled it out of a cooler and handed it to me...tip for what? And the Snow Cone booth was a joke. I paid $7 for ice with a little syrup. But these couple of bumps aside I still had a ton of fun and I'll definitely go next year. And you just never know who you'll run into. I may or may not have ran into AAR while talking crap about them wearing skinny jeans. I call that a good night! *Gateway Band - The band that really got me into pop rock. Kind of like a gateway drug, but it won't kill you.

In a city where I didn't find as much art as I had hoped, this mural is a huge and spectacular…read moresurprise. Where else should I look for art here in El Paso? I'd love your input! This massive mural of a mountain lion is many stories high and adorns the One San Jacinto Plaza Building downtown. It's constructed of recycled trash, believe it or not! This colorful masterpiece was created by Portuguese artist Bordalo Segundo. Here is his quote: "We are destroying the world the habitat of the animals, we are also animals so I think we should think we are also destroying our own habitat." If you appreciate art or are just curious, you have to check this out! Life is great with unique art!