Cibolo Creek Ranch Presidio

... do laundry and make dinner before our night<br>drive.<br><br>Arriving at our destination, Dean made<br>a head for laundry and soon came back to say only 1 of the 3 dryers<br>was working so we both dashed over with our things. One person had<br>got in ahead of us, so we sorted our clothes and waited for them to<br>finish. Meanwhile, Michelle took a shower to wash her rather nasty<br>tangled hair. The shower was great. With it 107 degrees out ...

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.<br><br>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 ...

... didn't get back to the RV until midnight. Sylvia crawled up on the bed and we both went to sleep. We went to the twilight progam and the starlight program. I saw the Milky Way, the Swan Nebula, twin stars, the red giant! The red super giant was another star we saw. I saw a galaxy 3,000 light years away. I saw Saturn's biggest moon - Titan!

We went to Fort Davis, established in 1854. It is one of the nations best preseved frontier forts. We stopped at a snake place to see snakes. Mamaw did not come in. We went shopping. After that, we went to Marfia again and we saw more lights this time. The nights are darker here so I can see a lot more stars then back in Zanesville. I even saw the Milky Way!

... is about 30 miles away from the park entrance and you have to drive slow to get there so we had plenty of time to soak in the beauty of the setting sun. The campground is set, more or less, in a basin surrounded by mountains. It was like being part of a picture as the sky and landscape seemed like they couldn&#8217;t be real. We spent Monday exploring Big Bend. Christine was feeling a little under the ...

... of place. No damage, and didn't have to take the camper off the truck. And they charged us $20. They will never get rich that way! We initially feared 3 days (weekend...) to be spent in Burnat, TX, but alas, we were able to keep going:-) The last 2 nights have supposedly had internet, but very poor internet and can't get things sent out. So you will get this eventually, but who knows when! ***** May 11th Van Horn, TX We have had two wonderful days ...

... border was a first for me. National land borders are a strange concept for a citizen of a country as geographically immense as the United States, and when one comes upon them, it's a bit of a shock, as if access to the seemingly endless and open landscape, will never end, be questioned, or denied. We were actually stopped by border patrol two or three times coming and going into Big Bend, and I found it a bit intimidating. A wake-up call to the privileged mobility we enjoy.

Today we drove from the Laird Ranch in Balmorhea to Santa Fe. We drove through some cool little TX towns such as Johnson City and Fredericksburg (wine country in TX). The drive through most of TX was the same view - desert, cactus and tumbleweed with lots of wind. But as we crossed over into NM we could start to see some amazing mountain views! We stopped and happily ate the rest of our Coopers BBQ for lunch ...

Happy Cinco de Mayo to all! (no school for kids here) So I am now in the last stop of my mexico program! We are in the state of Chihuahua, on the Texas border. I am in Ciudad Juarez now, and we can see El Paso clearly across the city- around the barrio where I am staying, the roads are not paved, and vintage busses are parked up and down the street. But down across the valley of downtown Juarez, there is the river, there is the frontera, the border to AMERICA and just ...

... 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/