Rio Grande Big Bend National Park

We headed west from San Antonio towards Del Rio, then north on 90 towards Marathon, then south on 385 into Big Bend National Park. As we drove between Del Rio and Marathon, the road gets really close to Mexico. And since we were so close to the border, we had to go through a border patrol check point... We pulled into the check point, rolled the …

... , we survived our first week of actually living in the camper van, and just loved it! Spent the entire week in Big Bend National Park - about 800,000 acres in southern Texas along the Rio Grande river, the boundary between the United States and Mexico. ...

... still ravaging east Texas, we decided to stick to our original plan (in spite of expected bad weather) and head to Big Bend National Park, in the southwestern corner of Texas. This 'original plan' called for a pleasant canoe trip on the Rio Grande, ...

On our way in to Alpine, TX (a common jumping off point for Big Bend National Park) we encountered what could be the first real threat to our plans for this part of the trip: snow! As we drove into town, the temperature was around -3°C and in response ...

... food for the next few days at the local Wal-mart (yes, I said Wal-mart), we moved on.    Big Bend National Park, located along the Mexican border in southwestern Texas, is massive, spanning 800,000 acres of Chihuahuan Desert, Chisos ...

... spring, with all of the cacti and other flora in bloom.  We shopped and gassed up in Monhans and headed south to Big Bend National Park.  It’s located on the border with Mexico, and directly on the Rio Grande river, the border between the ...

... 8217;ll leave earlier, due to the two hundred mile drive.  We’ll stay two nights at the Seminole Canyon Campground, also along the Rio Grande.  It’s really a gas to move to new territory every few days.  I could live like ...

... the toilet twice during this time.  Today our big adventure was the Rio Grande and some water, finally!!  The Rio Grande runs though Big Bend National Park and guides the Colorado River, on one side of the river is the USA and on the other side ...

All that driving and we are still in Texas, the adage really is true, everything is bigger in Texas. We went to Big Bend National Park, which is huge, it covers ~800,000 acres. We went to Big Bend at the recommendation of National Geographic. The ...

... river.   We then proceeded along to the “Santa Elena Canyon Trail” which was a short hike down to the Rio Grande, and a closer look at the canyon carved through the rock by the river, because of the recent rains the river was ...

... minutes through Big Bend to the RV park.  The RV park is located near the southern end of the park, very close to the Rio Grande.  Big Bend was something John has talked about going to for years, and I wasn't that interested.  At first, ...