Big Bend Country

The Jersey Lilly- office of Judge Roy Bean in Langtry, Texas

Chuck and Mike

Chisos Mountains

Casa Grande

At Santa Elena Canyon

Chisos Mountains

Quirky little place we stayed at in Terlingua- outside of the National Park

Just another pretty vista

Fun little town we stayed in

We hiked to this favorite place of the college students at Sul Ross State University

McDonald Observatory

Mike telling time

Checking out some sunspots

Mike with his trusty steed and dog

They call it Big Bend because that's where the Rio Grande takes a turn for a while to head north before heading south again and on to the Gulf. Just across the river is Mexico. Every once in a while we go through a border patrol checkpoint. We'll pull over and the border agent will stick his head in and ask us if it's just the three of us and then we'll go on our merry way. This area is part of the Chihuahua Desert. Blasting hot during the day, cold at night. Not much water and lots of unfriendly critters- scorpions, several types of poisonous snakes, fire ants, javelinas... I couldn't help but think about how desperate you would have to be to try to get in to our country via that route. Such beautiful scenery. The roads are winding and around every corner is something more beautiful.

Heading north now. On to the Guadalupe Mountains and New Mexico...