Big Bend again

2/24- Big Bend NP, TX

   Today we drove over to the Chisos Basin for a hike. This was not an easy thing to do. Everything here in the park is a long ways away. It was a 40 mile drive and we never left the park. I have put over 100 miles on the rv and are still inside the park. In order to get out of the park tomorrow it will take another 50 miles. Good thing I filled up before we got here because they do not sell gas inside the park. 

   The scary part of the drive was yet to come. The last 6 miles wound up to the Chisos basin but the park service said no rv’s over 24 feet on the road. Well we are 24 feet so here goes. The road was fine until mile 5 and after that there were 3 or 4 hairpin turns in a row. Now we have driven this van on some pretty scary roads and these were some of the tightest turns I’d seen yet. We did get through with no trouble but I think one of the cars coming the other way may need to have their seats cleaned after encountering us in the middle of one of these turns. 

   We had a nice hike through what they called a forest. I’m here to tell you that was a flimsy forest. Few of the trees were over my head and it was downhill to the end and of course uphill all the way back. Still it was a nice hike and the end was a beautiful view through a gap in the cliffs this the trail name of Window. 

    Then it was another 40 mile drive back to the campsite. This is a dark sky park and they say they have the darkest sky in the country here. With the dry air and dark skies it makes for some spectacular star gazing. 

   The weather is warm now getting up to close to 90 today. It may be time to head back north for a while. 

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