Terlingua to El Paso, Texas

Tomorrow Liz flies home to Louisiana and I return to NYC. That meant driving from Big Bend to El Paso, about three hundred miles. We had all day, so it shouldn’t have been onerous. But overnight, everything changed. The temperature dropped from over one hundred degrees to mid-fifties in the morning and the temperature never climbed above sixty. And the … Read More

Study Butte and Terlingua, Texas

I suspect that for nearly everyone reading this, these two town names are completely unfamiliar. I’d certainly never heard of them before planning this trip to West Texas. Both sit just outside Big Bend National Park, small outposts on the edge of a vast landscape. But let’s start at the beginning. We left Fort Davis after what can only be … Read More