Big Bend Trip: Day Five

– Terlingua, Texas to Denton, Texas – Today was a pretty quiet day, as all we really did was drive home. We didn’t take as many pictures as we might’ve liked, but we didn’t end up having too many opportunities to take any that might have been interesting. We started this morning at 5am with breakfast…

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Big Bend Trip: Day Four

– Terlingua, Texas to Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park – The weather decided not to cooperate again today. It is perpetually warm here, and yet somehow Mark and I came on a weekend where it decided to snow, rain, and be foggy in the desert. I guess we are just…

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Big Bend Trip: Day Three

– Terlingua, Texas to Big Bend National Park– Today was our first day in Big Bend National Park. We’re here again tomorrow, too. The weather took a turn for the worse overnight, so when we woke up this morning, it was very cold and the sky was covered with unpleasant looking clouds. We didn’t wake…

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Big Bend Trip: Day Two

– Fort Stockton, Texas to Terlingua, Texas– Did you even know Texas had a town named Terlingua? I’d be willing to bet that many of you didn’t. The town actually refers to itself as, “The Ghost Town.” I can say with absolutely certainty that a nickname like that doesn’t really sell me on a visit….

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Big Bend Trip: Day One

– Denton, Texas to Fort Stockton, Texas – Today was the first day of our New Year’s trip to Big Bend National Park in southwest Texas. We were especially glad that the weather decided to cooperate, since towns in this area and north of here were experiencing a blizzard just two days ago. We saw…

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