Thanks, Bilgey -- Hi to the family. I'm sure everyone
has recovered from the island trip and are now
creating new "adventures"!

--Larry

--- Bill Connelly <billiam@erols.com> wrote:
> [...snip!] Finally, westward along the Gulf Coast
> toward California using
> the scenic routes (primarily US highways) we were
> unable to follow outbound,
> including Big Bend Nat'l Park, [snip!...]
>
> ======
>
> If you're there there at Big Bend Park anyhow, then
> DO think about spending
> a night or two in nearby Terlingua. It sure is
> lively for a place that
> bills itself as a "ghost town." I had a GREAT time
> there. If memory
> serves, I think I might have camped at a place not
> all that far from the
> northern Park entrance in Study Butte called the
> "Big Bend Travel Park", a
> couple-few miles from actual old ghost town of
> Terlingua. The camping place
> overlooked the bluffs and river and had a big cool
> colorful and quirky
> restaurant and a bar full of all manner of colorful
> local "desert life"
> tossing back their icey Shiner beers in double-shot
> glasses. What the hell
> such a great vibrant wonderful place is doing out in
> the middle of heart of
> the center of abso-friggin-lutely NOwhere makes it
> all the more mysterious
> and appealing...sort of like being in Teaneck, New
> Jersey and suddenly
> walking into that alien bar scene from Star Wars.
>
> Just remember when you're out there in West Texas to
> tank up at EVERY
> opportunity and carry lots of extra water. Never
> pass up a chance to top
> off the tank...It can be over a hundred miles
> between stations in spots
> thereabouts, and one of my memories of my own trip
> is the sight of dozens
> and dozens of near fuelless cars all stranded around
> the single pump for a
> hundred miles in any direction whose owner had
> passed away the previous
> week. Those that hadn't tanked at the last chance
> found their chance to
> catch up on their staring at the horizon.
>
> ~Bilgey~
>
>
>


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