As the Sooners prepare to open the 2012 campaign in El Paso on Saturday, our seasoned columnist reminisces about what used to be — across the Rio Grande.
When I think of El Paso, I think of Ciudad Juárez.I don’t think of the current state of Juárez and the violence. I think of classic Juárez. Mercado Juárez.
In the late 1960s, my retired parents had this passion of traveling a lot, just loading up the Impala, pulling onto Highway 9 and driving wherever the wind took them. And why not? They had the time. And regular gas was going for about 30 cents a gallon.
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