Thursday dawned cool and overcast, and we hooked up early to make the 50 mile drive across the park to Costolon, and the Cottonwood campground. The roadway winds up and down, around the Chisos Range, with one wonderful vista after another. In due course, we arrived at the campground around 10:30. The trick here, we have found, is to pounce early on these sites. They are not reserve-able, strictly first come, first serve, so if you time your arrival to about the time most folks are leaving, the pickings are good. We got a nice spot, south-facing to make both the solar engineer and the feng shui guru happy. This was an all primitive campground, no power, pit toilets, and the only water was from spigots marked "non-potable". We liked the site right well, as did
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