by PeterMurtagh-user | Apr 29, 2023 | Blog
April 25th 2023, El Paso. From a distance, it looks like a thin and very straight black line sitting on the horizon. On this side of it, the Texas side that is, the land is pancake flat farm land. On the other side, the Mexican side, the land is mostly scrub and rises...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Apr 28, 2023 | Blog
April 21st 2023, Llano, Texas. Most everything you need to know about Llano can be found in Fuel Cafe on East Main Street. What is seen and unseen, what is spoken and what is not spoken about. The cafe’s motto — coffee + music + community — sums up...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Apr 24, 2023 | Blog
April 18th 2023, in Austin, Texas. Sitting at a set of traffic lights in Fredericksburg, another biker pulls up alongside me and we have the conversation — where from, where going etc etc? “I’m going for a coffee,” said the other guy. Can I...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Apr 21, 2023 | Blog
April 15th 2023, Bandera,Texas. It was such a relief to leave Mexico and enter the United States. Two nights before I departed Monterrey, a young woman spat at me in the street — full force so that I felt her spittle hit the back of my neck and head. I can say...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Apr 21, 2023 | Blog
April 14th 2023, Monterrey, north central Mexico. Keysí Lano Rivera is sitting in a wheelchair chatting to another man lying on a bottom bunk when Yoennis González bring me over to introduce us. I’m slightly embarrassed to be intruding into their chat but no,...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Apr 15, 2023 | Blog
April 11th 2023, Monterrey, northern Mexico. I spent the night in a sort-of Jury’s Inn type hotel in the middle of Cuidad Victoria, a city in north-eastern Mexico and a decent jumping off point for the Mexico/Texas border, if I decided to head straight for it....
