Van Horn, United States Travel Blogs

Louisiana / Texas
Aug 3, 2009 (7 photos)

... to give up after about 700 miles but found myself on a stretch of highway with nothing for about a 100 miles so I headed reaching my goal of Van Horn Texas against my will. I finally made it to my hotel at 1045pm.  Just about 15 hours of riding!

On the road again
Oct 20, 2008 (8 photos)

Up early to do a whole day of driving to Texas...and what an awakening at Dan's house for Marcos. While he was doing what needed to be done, he spotted a scorpion walking on the bathroom floor and sliding itself under the shower mat. With the expected ...

West TX (also know as nowhere TX)
May 31, 2007

... Some towns just leave you with a lot to think about. Rose early this morning to resume riding and made it to a place called Van Horn, TX.  This is currently where we are residing.  We went to a local restaurant for dinner and I had Mexican food ...

on to El Paso
May 12, 2009 (5 photos)

... , but very poor internet and can't get things sent out. So you will get this eventually, but who knows when! ***** May 11th Van Horn, TX We have had two wonderful days down at Big Bend National Park. It is a wondrous place for sure. We took a ...

El Paso and beyond...
Feb 27, 2009 (13 photos)

... German?'.  Well... what can you say to that, especially as D was wearing his English cricket shirt! We finally hit Van Horn and booked into a small independent motel, proudly boasting that it is American owned.  It was slightly shabby but clean ...

On to Texas
Dec 6, 1980

... station to watch the sunset.  Gas in El Paso and a couple more stops with a final stop for the day at the rest area near Van Horn at 11:37 pm-long day and I covered a lot of territory.  Not too interesting to write about but it was great to see- ...

Day 2
Jun 19, 2007

Holy smokes folks. Its Africa hot here. 101 in the shade. Even my car is protesting about the heat. Tried to make the AC cooler and it said "look lady, I don't do Africa hot so settle down." So I dealt with hot when not in direct airflow. HOT!!! OK, ...

Van Horn, Texas Camping Day #2
Dec 15, 2009 (4 photos)

... ;Still cloudy and cold most of day as we drove to Van Horn, Texas.  It was windy, but sunny as as the Van Horn Weather Station indicated (see photo). Again, we are the only tent campers....I think the RV's are laughing at us. Smoked Brisket at ...

Day 19: Fort Hancock, TX to Van Horn, TX
Mar 28, 2006

... , we dutifully awaited a break in traffic and hightailed it across the interstate to resume our ride. One final climb into Van Horn, accompanied by a few sprinkles with thunder and lightening, and our day's ride was finished. I did laundry tonight, ...

Van Horn and Fort Davis
Oct 4, 2008 (10 photos)

... to see. And once we had driven up to take a look inside on of the big McDonald telescopes, we headed off north for Van Horn, a little town from which we could set out the next day to Guadalupe Mountains National Park. This must have really been our ...

Van Horn
Dec 9, 2008 (2 photos)

Made it to Van Horn, TX.  Not much here.  I stopped to see the THING.   See photo.  It is an interesting tourist trap.  I only cost $1 for admission.  The exhibits are in open air tin barns.  They are very dirty and ...

Big Bend Nat. Park to Ft. Davis, Texas
Mar 29, 2008 (10 photos)

2/27/08 We left Big Bend and took the scenic route through Big Bend Ranch State Park and stayed along the Rio Grande for a while.  This was another area where the roads were straight up and down. Turned north onto scenic Rt. 67 at Presidio.& ...

Uh Middle of No where
Nov 8, 2009

Stopped and slept here, 560 mile we drove today so onto New Mexico