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Thunderbird Hotel Marfa

600 West San Antonio Marfa, Texas, 79843, United States

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The coolest small artsy town in West Texas

A travel blog entry by bparsons75

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Marfa is so hip it even has an East Village NYC bar named after itself. It has trendy art galleries, gourmet food trucks, minimalist motels with scratchy record players for hire, excellent restaurants, and a hippy commune. We loved it of course, and felt right back home in NY.

What kind of name is Marfa?

A travel blog entry by sackitoff

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In our continuing effort to avoid Hurricane Ike, we decided to stop for the night in a little town called Marfa in west Texas. Famous (well sort of) for its artists community and some 1980s artist named Donald Judd--who neither of us had ever heard of--it has a few nice hotels and a lot of art galleries and small cafes. When we arrived, we realized …

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Stars of the West

A travel blog entry by travelswithduke

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... buildings. The fort was built at the front of a box canyon on the San Antonio to El Paso lower settlement route in the early 1830's to protect settlers from the Indians. The town of Fort Davis has very little to offer but a whole foods store with its own bakery and deli which we enjoyed. At night we went to the McDonald Observatory star program. The University of Texas maintains three large super ...

Art in West Texas

A travel blog entry by travelswithduke

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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 ...

Where the Buffalo Soldiers were

A travel blog entry by catndeano

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... the reconstructed parts weren't finished so we could only view inside a few buildings. It was at this fort that some of the famed 'Buffalo Soliders' (African-Americans) were based and the fort was used to protect travellers along the San Antonio - El Paso road. Before leaving the fort, we took a look at the state map and decided to back track a little and headed for ...

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