This city is no longer what it was, I remember that back in the day, the end of the city was near what is now known as "plaza las torres", my dad worked in "Berg Electronics" now known as Scientific Atlanta not far from "las torres", one day I wen't with him (I don't remember why though) and it was the end of the world there. There was nothing more than wasteland, well, as things are right now, it is very populated in that zone.
Today I had to go to CAPSIC (an institution I have been working from time to time, associated to the college of psychologist) to get some things, my dad gave me a ride but he had to go to another place first. Well, I told him how I knew he could get there, but since the place he had to go was on the other side of the road he took another way, I don't know the city as good as he and trusted him that he would get there with no problem.
Ok, so in this map C is my house, A is the place I wanted to go and the trail from A to C is the road I always take when I go alone (a.k.a. in the bus), D is the point where I realize where I was and somewhere near the place my dad had to go.
To explain a little, I have only gotten to point A from were B is supposed to be or from C (since it is the easiest way using the bus), my stop was in Jupiter avenue, just before a bridge. I never got to the other side of the bridge, and so I didn't knew what was there, until today, but I got from the other side. The reason I didn't realize where I was was because that bridge wasn't there last time I wen't near there, when I saw it from the other side I didn't noticed either until I saw an old building called "valentinos", this is the avenue we took to go to El Paso, but it was so changed.
Well, my dad crossed the bridge and I saw a signboard that had written "Jupiter" and I was like WFT? I never realized that I was so close to there, I thought it was a place far away from what I knew, but after crossing that bridge it changed my perspective. But how would I think of that possibility, the place I have been going was new to me, but now I know that it is where the old cotton fields were.
I had not been there in many years, and this city is not what I remember :P
On another note, I found this in a certain website I visit from time to time:
It is obviously a bug, but the queue can go as far as 1 week from what I heard :P


Yeah...Cities change apparently, same happened in the neighborhood we moved into in El Paso. It was empty, and now, it is packed... I think that might be why we admire old cities like Paris, London, New York, etc. They are "done growing" in the central parts. So they don't change as dramatically. Well part of it anyway.
ReplyDeleteyeah, like chuy, when we moved to a neighborhood in ep (in a totally different area than chuy) that was the 'edge' of civilization before chaparral.....and now every time i go, im amazed how it just keeps expanding and expanding, like if anybody really wants to live there...:P
ReplyDeleteYup, it's crazy how much a city can grow in so little time!
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