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Road_Phantom
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Jun 28, 2016

el paso

Anyone stay in El paso for the winter. We know it gets a little chilly in the dead of winter, but there's no humidity to speak of and few mosquitoes. We stayed in Port Isabel last winter and between the high winds, humidity and rain, we're opting for the desert this time.
We tried Florida and the bug situation is worse than south Texas. The ocean is nice, but we don't need to be near it for the entire winter.
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    Second_Chance
    Explorer II
    Jun 28, 2016
    I'm originally from Las Cruces, NM, (45 miles north of El Paso). We stayed six weeks in the area over the holidays this past winter. It got down into the teens several times and we had snow the day after Christmas. The difference between the El Paso area and the lower Rio Grande Valley is about 3,500 feet in elevation and several degrees of latitude. El Paso also has a crime problem being on the border with Juarez, as well. It's not a place I would choose to winter if I didn't have family in the area.

    Rob

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