Three Palms Inn Presidio
Old Hwy 67 North Presidio, Texas, 79845 , United States
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Stars of the West
... 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
... We enjoyed visiting this small town with a big music and arts scene. The Museum of the Big Bend was there since this is the western gateway to the park. We wished we had seen it first before our visit but it was very informative. Our RV park had a dog park with it which Duke thoroughly enjoyed since BBNP did not allow pets on any ...
Other side of Big Bend
After our hike to Boquillas Canyon we drove to Chisos Basin in the middle of the park. It is a big bowl with tall green trees - pine and oak- and has bears and mountain lions. We enjoyed a short hike there to the "window" which is the most photographed site in Big Bend. This is a beautiful place - a big bowl in the middle of green mountains - totally unlike the desert ...
Back for the Cowboy Social
... so we arrived at Marathon just after 2pm. After checking out where the Social would be and confirming that it was pay at the door, we returned to the Marathon Motel & RV Park to check in. We had about an hour or so to spare, so we skyped my parents and then headed over to the community centre just after 3pm. We paid our $15 each fee, found a table and sat down. The evening turned out to be quite fun. We got an older couple at our table ...
Where the Buffalo Soldiers were
6th Nov. cont.
We then headed off to Fort Davis and spent a couple of hours looking around this fort. It's a bit different to the others we'd seen as there are two forts here. The original 1854 fort no longer existed except for some ruins behind the 1869 fort which is what we were mainly looking at. However, this fort was part ruins and part reconstruction and ...


