We got up early on Thursday morning ( like 6 am) so that we could leave and enjoy all of the Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park. The scenery was breath taking but the ride as LONG. I think Larry said 350 miles round trip. You have to drive down to different things and then drive back the same way to get to something else.We went as far as you can go which is to the Rio Grande River and looked across to Mexico. The Chisos Mountain chain is most impressive . We had a picnic lunch because there is only one restaurant in the whole national park but we knew that ahead of time so we were prepared.
After lunch we headed on the drive thru the state park which proved to be very interesting, the road that is, if you are not careful you could get airborne over some of the hills and dips.
After stopping for ice cream and gas for the car we made our way back to Marfa so that we could stop at the Paisano Hotel, where some of the filming of the movie "Giant" was filmer. The hotel was built in 1930.
Arrived back at the Lost Alaskan RV Resort around 6:30 and were not too long getting ready to call it a day.
Friday found us just trying to regroup from the day before so not much was done.
Saturday morning we started leaving Alpine in groups of 3 or 4 traveling to Fredericksburg, Texas. Had a wonderful meal of "Axis Deer" which was great. Now I am not a lover of venison but I have to admit this was good and had I not know what it was I would have never known.
Today finds us again resting a little. Larry and I drove downtown and looked in a few shops but like the tee-shirt says "shopping with your husband is like hunting with the game warden". Tonight we all plan to go to a German restaurant for dinner.
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a couple of yeaars ago we camped at big bend national park the place where there is only 1 restarurant..weenjoyed it..took several ranger led talks..in dade city you'll have to give us lots of points of things to see and do on our way to calif from there..T
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