Hard wood

3/7- Sagebrush Camp, Palo Dura Canyon, Canyon TX


We said  goodbye to William Bonney this morning as we drove out of town past his grave. The road was straight and the landscape unending. It was just grass as far as you could see with a few cows thrown in. 

   Once we crossed the Texas line there was more green as some of the field were irrigated. We saw cotton and corn growing. We came upon what looked like piles of tires spread around. Once we got close it turned out they were black cows. We saw lots of stockyards and beef processing plants. I’ll leave you to figure what happens to the cows. 

   We have driven through loads of small towns or villages. They all seem to be similar in that the main road through town is tree lined. These are usually the only trees around. There are several bombed out buildings which have the roof caving in and the doors falling off. Of course there is junk in the yards. See nothing rots out here so these old shacks are just eroding away. There is usually one nice home but even that has no grass in the yard and everything is covered in dust. The bigger towns will have a working gas station or even a Dollar General. Two minutes later you are back looking at grass and cows as you continue on your way. 

   We were headed for this Palo Dura Canyon which was supposed to be the 2nd biggest canyon in the US. Trouble was it was just flat grass land until we got to the entrance and there was this huge canyon. Some call it the Grand Canyon of Texas. We drove down another switchback road to get to our campsite at the bottom of the canyon. 

    We took a nice hike that climbed over and through the canyon walls and we hope to do more tomorrow

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