Riata Inn Motel Presidio
Highway 67 N Presidio, Texas, United States
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Stars of the West
Only a short drive up a scenic loop drive from Alpine lies Fort Davis TX. The scenery on the loop drive must have been where all of those old western movies were shot. The second half of the loop is at 6300 feet and the surrounding mountains top out at 8800 feet. Quite impressive. In the town of Fort Davis we visited Fort Davis National Historical Park. This fort is partially restored with replica furniture in ...
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 ...
Other side of Big Bend
... not visit us that night but we loved the campground for its peacefulness. We hiked up into Santa Elena Canyon - again cut by the Rio Grande where Terlingua Creek joined the river. This too was a spectacular sight with 1400 foot walls on each side of ther narrow canyon. We have way too many pictures from Big Bend but every view is something different that we just had to remember.
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Back for the Cowboy Social
6th Nov. cont.
It is here that the Museum of the Big Bend is found and that's what we went to see. As it didn't open until 1pm, we had a look round Alpine first, then had lunch and then went to the museum to have a look at the replica of Tall Rockshelter, a prehistoric pictograph. Our main decision for back tracking was to return to Marathon for their Cowboy Social which started at 3pm. The museum was only small so took us under an hour to ...
Where the Buffalo Soldiers were
... 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 ...
