Hampton Inn Alpine
2607 West Highway 90 Alpine, Texas, United States
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Stars of the West
... two of the mountain tops and its visitor center lets folks like us in two or three nights per week to hear their presentation and look through four big telescopes. The presentation was wonderful and Nick and I both feel we can now look up at the sky and know a little more about what we are looking at. Our campground down the mountain was home to several groups of Javelinas and we had two mule deer visit us.
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Art in West Texas
After leaving Big Bend the next town was Alpine TX - several hours away. Alpine has almost more art galleries than people. Apparently an artist colony there in the 1920's has been revived and there were many galleries we could and did visit. Alpine is also the home of Sul Ross University - part of Texas A & M and formerly the state ...
Big Bend National Park day 2
... shaped rocks. After walking about half a mile you then head up one of the hills. After another quarter mile you come around a corner and find yourself right next to Balanced Rock. If it's visible from anywhere along the trail I didn't see it. Unfortunately, the lighting was terrible on Balanced Rock too. At least it was a shorter trail than the others.
I continued toward the ...
Big Bend National Park
... trail for a while but it didn't look like you could get a good view of the canyon from the US side so I turned around. It was sunset by then so I started on the two-hour drive back to Marathon. On the way I encountered another immigration checkpoint, which makes a lot more sense than the one last night since today I was heading away from the boarder, unlike last night.
Tomorrow I'll be heading back to Big Bend National ...
Mit Amtrak durch die Wüste
... Limited" und verband einst Kalifornien mit Florida - heute ist allerdings bereits in New Orleans Schluss. Der schönste Name hilft aber auch nicht beim aufstehen, weil dieser depperte Zug natürlich wieder zur unchristlichsten Zeit überhaupt, um 05:40, fahren muss. Schnell habe ich den richtigen der silbernen Doppelstock-Wagen gefunden und mich in der Dunkelheit über ausgestreckte Extremitäten und am Boden liegende Kinder zu meinem Platz ...



