Feb 13 Thursday

 We have a lazy day start and finally get on the road around 11:00. Jim road out with me. We had forgotten how much climbing there is on the road out here

Lots of movies have been made out here. If they need a desolate setting this is the place

These are the building that have been used for some of the movies.

It is hard to imagine that there is a flood gage out here. But here it is

The Rioi Grande is running strong this year. It's been about thirteen years since Jim and I have been here. Back then it was desperately low. It makes me smile to see it flowing so well. What is more 

Facinating is the hills on the other side is Mexico. When they talk about that wall they want to build to keep our borders safe you can only think to yourself...Yeah, Right.

Riding back to camp this is a shot of Lajitas. The last year we were herea rich guy from Houston bought the town of Lajitas. He envisioned a rich person's hideout. Lajitas was  out of a set of an old western movie. Wide dirt road down the middle with a row of buildings with a wooden boardwalk. The guy closed the RV camp, camp grounds and a funky general store down the hill. There was a Lone Star beer drinking goat named Clay Henry at the general store. He put in a 

$30,000.00 Golf course, which flooded because he built it on the flood plain. Interestingly enough it hadn't flooded in 92 years. Since then he has gone bust and a new group of investors have done a pretty nice job. The old Lajitas is definitely gone the new people seem to be embrassing the regular people. Especially the mountains bikers. The group here have delveloped incredible trails. They say if you like Moab, then you better check this out.

Mike got in pretty late so we opted for dinner and went to the Resturant in Lajitas. It is a beautiful 

Place. The food was marvelous. Here is Jim and Mike with Georgia who is from Main. You probably 

Are wondering as well. How did she get here. Well, she wanted to move to Texas and found herself in Marfa. People there said working in Lajitas she would make a better living. She was working hard and always had a smile.

Back at camp and we plan our morning. Jim is going off road. Me, I'm gonna head out on 170 to see if I can ride any farther. The wind really made it hard to ride very far this morning, but when I turned around, boy did I fly.