Days Inn Van Horn Tx

It turned out to be a very long day. Rode about 900 miles!! The day started out great with a ride over to this little town called Gibsland. Gibsland is about 40 miles away from the hotel I stayed at last night.

Gibsland is famous for being the spot where Bonnie and Clyde met their fate at the hands of some "law enforcement officials" There is a marker that actually marks the very spot. Check out the photos of the marker and the little town ...

These are the same as those I emailed out yesterday.... plus with any luck, a few pix. Ft. Stockton, TX RV Park (actually quite nice, a small town out in the middle of nowhere 100 miles north of Big Bend Nat'l Park, 250 miles east of El Paso) May 9, 2009 My grandfather's birthday. He'd be about 133 or something like that. Texas, Texas and more Texas. We actually have really liked it. Greener than expected. More rolling in many places. Western ...

We spent another day on the road, sprinting across the south west again. We left Benson and before long we crossed the border into New Mexico. It is always surprising how the scenery seems to suddenly change in a new state. Firstly, we went through the Texas Canyon which was a rocky pass and then the mountains seemed to disappear and if we had thought Arizona was flat, arid and bleak we were soon to find out that it had nothing on New Mexico! It is hard to take video or ...

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 could stand an ...

... we will get up early and continue another 500 miles to San Antonio. The best part is that in Texas the speed limit is 80 miles an hour so it should be faster. This is the top speed limit we have encountered, and it is the first state where we have seen a significant number of State Troopers and Police on the roads stopping people, and one inspection by Border Police in the middle of no where. Cheerio!

Just 25 miles north of Alpine was the next stop on our trip: Fort Davis. Built in the early 1800s on a strategic location on an old Apache trail, backed by mountains, it served to protect convoys travelling between San Antonio (400 miles away) and El Paso (200 miles away) - and later also those going out to California during the gold rush. Protection from who? Indians and bandits. But in reality, they had to do little in the way of ...

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. We knew it was scenic because of the little dots beside the route on the map, but in addition to that it really was beautiful. As we approached Marfa, we noticed an object in the ...

... we did beat the storm but took some blows from rain pellets for about 3 miles. In the end we prevailed as we endured, got wet, and yet were dry when we finally got off the bikes in Radium Springs. At that campground we had little adobe huts. Monday we started bright and early to get into TX and made it to El Paso. It was Memorial Day and we saw 16 other bicyclists (none on their way to FL.) City biking makes us all nervous so we ...

... home. Jay then started tensing for some reason, rolling his sleeve up and flexing his muscles, which prompted a call of "hey, tough guys!" from a passing local. The people seemed mostly to be Hispanic, El Paso being as close to the Mexican border as you can get, with the city of Juarez just a stone's throw away. They didn't seem to notice the heat much, and were strolling around in jeans and shirts, while Jay and I were barely able to stand in shorts and t-shirts. 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-all unexplored territory to me, hoping to get back some day to see it at a more leisurely pace. I covered 522.7 miles. My art website and links to my artwanted portfolio http://home.earthlink.net/~greenvanartu sa/