October 19 We left Fort Davis, heading for Big Bend National Park. This park is massive, with over 180 kms of the Rio Grande making up its southern border, and at least 80 kms from top to bottom. The drive in from Alpine, just south of Fort Davis, was about 150 km of desert before we reached the hamlet of Terlingua and our campsite. Since it was over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (almost 40 Celcius), we decided to drive through the Big Bend State Park which also fol...

Today was fairly restful. We took a drive around the Scenic Loop which started in Fort Davis. There were a number of smaller mountains, some nice pull-offs and picnic areas, and a few small villages. Some of the villages were essentially deserted, and all of them were quite small. We did a bit of window shopping in the village of Alpine, then headed back to the trailer for dinner. After dinner, we went to the McDonald Observatory. This was a very impressi...

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