Big Bend National Park The Big Bend Park gets its name from its location on the Rio Grande where it makes a northward turn. Due to its location, this is not a park that people arrive at when they are on their way somewhere else. People that arrive at Big Bend are here because this is their destination. The bend of the Rio Grande is big, but so is the park. It encompasses 801,163 acres, the Chihuahuan Desert and the Chisos Mountains. The park has Mexican black bears that reintroduced themselves into the park. The Peregrine population is the only [View Full Entry]

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We stopped on the way to Big Bend at the confluence of the Pecos River and the Rio Grande. Beautiful! Next stop was the tiny town of Langtry, where Judge Roy Bean held court in his saloon, The Jersey Lilly. He was the law west of the Pecos. The saloon is quite tiny. At Big Bend NP we managed to get a spot at the Rio Grande Village RV park, which is basically a parking lot with hookups. Once we parked the camper and hooked up the electricity, we headed out to see the sights and take some pictures. We [View Full Entry]

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MISTY!! The road into Chisos Basin is definitely winding and steep, but so beautiful. The Chisos Basin is set inside the ring of the Chisos Mountain Range which is situated entirely inside the Big Bend National Park. We took the Windows overlook trail and got some great pictures. After leaving the park we got views of the Chisos Mountains from the west. This part of Texas is like so much of the west, wide open and ever-changing. There are mountains of every shape and color: round top mountains, flat top, pointy, rocky, striped (vertically, horizontally and diagonall [View Full Entry]

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Well now that we are safely back home I suppose I should finish the last half of the trip. This post will not be quite as colorful as the last one I’m sure, since it has been a little over a week since we made it home. So, Friday morning after feeding the deer, we got up, broke camp and headed out for Big Bend, which by the way is a whole lot farther than one would think. Alpine was a short hour drive away from Fort Davis, and wouldn’t you know it, we got there just in time for lunch. [View Full Entry]

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4:45 a.m. Early- Too early. I didn’t get much sleep last night, but as soon as I managed to shake off the cobwebs and get dressed I’m semi-ready to go. Its warm, dry, and no breeze, which would be a TOTAL lie. It’s cold, dark, windy the kind that drives its way through you, and just too early. **Italic (Daniel, quit telling stories, it wasn’t THAT cold. Everybody is going to think that we are freezing to death. It was in the 50s y’all.) ** But none the less I’m in a good mood with that new Derks Bentley song “Free [View Full Entry]

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On a clear day in Brewster County, you can see for seventy miles, but you'll never see a cell phone tower or a three-signal stoplight. And that suited us just fine. We wanted only to get away from civilization altogether and it looked like we succeeded. But our devil-may-care attitude proved to be our undoing. When we asked the old lady running the motel-slash-diner if she sold any beer, she looked at us like we'd lost our minds. "BEER? You mean to tell me you didn't bring any BEER?" There was a long ride to the next town and back, and [View Full Entry]

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Well, i made it out of SA and to the Davis Mountains State Park on Sunday April 1. Currently I'm in the parking lot of a Thriftway in Alpine TX...go free internet!!! It's been a good couple of days, Otis is freakin on me a bit...the 1st night he stood guard at the tent door and was very uneasy regarding the night sounds. Last night was better for him, and i think he'll get in the groove fairly quickly. I've met a couple of people so far, Jennifer a girl from Austin is also making the journey North to AK...she has [View Full Entry]

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Motorhome News from North America 38 13th March - 24th March 2007 Don’t Mess with Texas! 7.42pm. Touchdown, at George Bush International Airport, Houston. The clocks have moved forward an hour in our absence. It’s crunch-time for our future travel plans as we approach immigration. There’s every chance we’ll be out of the USA in five days when our present visas run out. We follow the signs. The long yellow line for Non-US Citizens. We stand in the queue, waiting our turn, passports and entry forms in hand, smiling nervously, shuffling forward, our luggag [View Full Entry]

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The drive to Big Bend country was dull, but increasingly hilly. Highlights included the biggest windfarm we've ever seen, lots of oil pumps and a gas station overrun by cats. We stayed the night at a motel in Alpine, after discovering that our planned destination, Marathon, was all out of rooms. Next morning, it was about an hour's drive down to the National Park through spectacular scenery - scrubby plains with cactus and the occasional deer leading to rocky red mountains. We dropped into the visitor centre for a map and a cd of mexican guitar music to set the mood, [View Full Entry]

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Tuesday, January 16, and a Ranger visits each of the five campers in our park. The message is: Chisos is closed and the only road going up out of Cottonwood is in bad condition. The winter storm is expected to continue all day and into tomorrow. So, we hunker down and are using the generator, with the ranger’s blessings. We managed to stay still for at least 3 hours, before venturing out for a walk in the mud and rain to the Ranger’s Center and the tiny shop about a mile away. It is hard to imagine that the road out [View Full Entry]

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