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Posted by ![The Royalty -- L to R: Nicole, Joel, Jesus, Daniel [Not pictured: Will]. (Photograph by Aric S. Queen)](http://intelligenttravel.nationalgeographic.com/files/2012/06/Royalty-590x417.jpg)
As you’ll see in the video, I caught The Royalty’s show at Padres in Marfa the other week, and then hung out with them after the show. They offered to give me a tour of their hometown of El Paso, and pointed out some of the city’s lesser-known spots (see below for each band member’s picks). Great band, by the way. Get into them now; it’s sure to give you guaranteed street cred once they hit it big. And they will hit it big.
If you haven’t heard of Donald Judd, don’t feel bad. I didn’t know who he was, either.
That table your laptop is resting on while you read this, the one you bought from that ubiquitous Swedish do-it-yourself store, the one that’s easy to put together because of its clean lines, well, you have Judd to thank for that.
Update from Far West Texas
Posted by Intelligent Travel on September 22, 2009 Contributing Editor Andrew Nelson is back from a visit to his former digs in West Texas, and uncovered a slate of fun new hotspots. You can follow all of Andrew’s many travels on Twitter at @andrewnelson. True to their contrarian nature, the isolated communities of Far West Texas–Marfa, Alpine, Sanderson and Marathon–seem to march in…
