On to Big Bend National Park

After our morning soak at Faywood, we hit the (paved this time) road and made our way southeast toward Big Bend National Park, a huge park in southwest Texas.

Remember that storm we were watching when we were heading to the hot springs? Apparently we dodged a bullet and missed a big snow storm that we saw evidence of all the way from Las Cruces, NM to El Paso, TX and past there into Alpine, TX where we stopped for the night about 100 miles north of the park. There were also interesting highway billboards.

The one I didn’t get a shot of said “Git yer pyro on” and I’m not even kidding…..

We were heading to Marfa, an artsy community in BF nowhere, and along the way on I-90 there is an art installation that I had heard about. I wanted to get a shot of it, but it snuck up on us, and John said, oh there’s the Prada Store! And we buzzed right by without stopping. I don’t have a photo, but you can Google it: Prada Store, Marfa. It’s a kick!

We drove around Marfa and the wind was howling and we didn’t really see anything that interested us so we kept on going and ended up in Alpine, TX, a sleepy little town that we found out at dinner had a small college. Who would have ever guessed! We got settled in to an RV park, walked about a mile and a half into town for a great dinner, and called the Tipsy Taxi for a ride home. We resupplied, did laundry, checked messages, and hit the road to the park.