Big Bend Adventure Day 4

It must be Sunday morning, 2011 02 13, it's easy to get confused.  I mean who is paying attention to what day it is with so many places to visit,  I'm a bit dizzy.  We wake up for the second time in the ghost town of Terlingua, I won't say if we saw ghost.

               Second morning in Terlingua

       Here's another look at the Candlelilla House.


We walked to breakfast,  just a stroll down the road to Espresso ...y poco mas (Espresso ...and a little more).  Yum they had great coffee and breakfast burritos, we sat out in the open air of Terlingua and enjoyed the morning.


We did stop by the local cemetery. It's right there along the road near where we stayed for the two nights. It is a good sized cemetery, some graves very old and some quite new.
 

                     Terlingua Cemetery


I didn't have my camera along but we toured the town, lots of ruins and partial ruins, where people are living now.  We packed up after breakfast and left Terlingua behind.

We drove southwest on highway 170 for about 13 miles until we came to the Rio Grande River, and to Big Bend Ranch State Park.



See the Rio Grande, on the left side is Mexico.

Along this river road we saw lots of rocks and mountains, various colors, shapes, and sizes.

Here we are along the Hoodoo Trail at the Rio Grande River.

 Hoodoo trail


We traveled along the river road as far west as Presidio Texas then headed north about 80 miles to Fort Davis.

This is just north of Marfa Texas.



Tonight we sleep at the Indian Lodge (the lodge was constructed in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and features the original interiors and furnishings) in
Fort Davis State Park.

While in the parking lot of the lodge along came two javelinas snorting their way through!

This is high above the Indian Lodge and the javelinas at Fort Davis State Park.  This was the end of day four of our Big Bend Adventure.