Sunday morning and an oil drilling platform is headed to Brownsville. We had seen it out on the fishing boat on Saturday. It was a dot on the horizon.
With the price of oil so low there is no reason to drill or pump.
Weather is changing and the tides are high and the surf is up.This is the first time we've seen these signs for no swimming. They are only posted near the jetty. Later in the day surfers will be out
challenging the waves
First time for all white Pelicans!
It's Tuseday February 3rd. Mr.Jimmy's Birthday! By the end of the day, he will have over 300 birthday wishes on his Facebook! With weather changes we have decided to get on the road and head to Big Bend. It's gloomy and misty as we head across the causeway to Port Isabell
Today it takes 2 navigators to help Jim get on the road.
Above is the International Amistad Resevior. Created on the Rio Grand. Off in the distance is Mexico.
We spent the night in Crystal City. Not the liveliest place in the world. All the RV parks are filled with people working the gas and oil fields. We drove to Uvalde I had try to find an RV park there,but there were none. It was a shame it was a busy place. Birthday dinner at an Applebee's then back for a good night's sleep.
Fog settles in over the area. That's a big ole semi headed up the hill. Visibility got a little tight for a while.
The best part of Retired/RV traveling is there is really not a deadline. We passed a sign for
Judge Roy Bean's place in the town he founded Langtry. He was enamored with an entertainer named Lilly Langtry. He wrote to her in hopes that she would come to Langtry. He was a self appointed judge and dispensed his own kind of justice.
Above is a building the judge built and called it an opera house hoping that would get Lillie to town. It acutally never became an opera house, however it was his home.
Beautiful gardens have been built around the towns building.
On the road again the landscape keeps changing.
We stopped in Marathon at Johnny's for lunch. A really good hamburger.
In Alpine for supplies then on to the RV Camp in Lajitas. The sunsets and sunrises are beautiful here. You need to be quick though. Without all the pollution of a big city they happen quickly.
Off on an early morning walk with the Doogie Dog. It's chilly, but it is amazing how quickly it warms up.
Our home is behind us.
We drove around and visited our friends at Desert Sports then on to check out Terlingua.
The tombstone above is of the gentleman who established Terlingua. Finding the ore Cinnabar that Mercury is mined from, Terlingua became a very prosperous town
Thursday we are riding some "easy" trails out of the Warnock Nature Center. We have ridden up to an area called Stargazer. There are horse back rides to this area in the evening to eat chuck wagon style and watch the stars.
I am pointing at my first crash boo boo. Not big but at least I got it out of the way.
The landscape here is constantly changing. The cut of the cliffs to the color of the rocks.
A fellow, John we have met at the RV Camp hikes quite a bit here and told us about the Picnic Table hike. The road above is the way we will be traveling up to it.
We've made it to the top! The view is spectacular. Below is Lajitas off to the left and the Rio Grande dividing Texas from Mexico
Straight ahead is the RV Camp we are in. We can see our trailer from here. Unless you know what your looking for it would be hard to tell
Ready for the hike back down, we know it will be quicker descending. Doogie's been having a blast.
But here doesn't waist shade and enjoys a cool drink of water.
Just a few phots of some of the landscape.
Doogie spent the rest of the evening in the doorway.
South Padre Island. It's a great way to spend our first week away from S.Padre. Next weekend the mountain bike festival will happen. People are starting to show up to participate in the activities.
