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Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park

Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park
These are the Chisos Mountains in Big Bend National Park in Texas. The photo was taken from our backcountry campsite near the Paint Gap Hills. We had spent the day kayaking the Rio Grande in the southwest corner of the park and in the evening had driven back to this location where we stayed the night at what was little more than a gravel turnoff along a dirt road.

We've been away from home now for nearly two weeks and will not be home again for another week. We left Monday, the 10th, and drove through Idaho and Montana to Sheridan, Wyoming, found a place to park our van and slept the night. It was 2 degrees F (-17C) in the morning and we had high winds, blowing snow, and slippery bridges as we drove through Wyoming and Colorado.

The check engine light had come on during the day (it proved later to be bad gas) and instead of staying the night in Amarillo, Texas, as we planned, we drove on through the night to San Antonio where we found a dealer and had the car checked out. That drive brought us to 75F (24C) temperatures in San Antonio where we checked into our guest house.

We spent two wonderful days in San Antonio, walking the riverwalk and biking the mission trail, as well as enjoying the wonderful guesthouse, a historic house on the river, that some of our children had booked for us. We enjoyed the city especially because we had not been there since 1996, when we flew to Houston with friends and drove there.

Leaving San Antonio we drove southwest to Big Bend National Park where we spent the next five days, hiking, kayaking and exploring. When I have opportunity to post more photos from that trip I'll describe our time there in more detail. We left there yesterday and drove to Carlsbad Caverns and spent the rest of a cold, miserable day touring the caverns.

We are leaving shortly for Guadalupe Mountains National Park and hope to spend today and tomorrow hiking and exploring there. The weather report, which were rather grim for that area have improved dramatically, and so we have, more or less. kept to our original plans which include camping there tonight and possibly tomorrow, spending a quiet Sunday in Carlsbad and then going on to Grand Canyon.

Since we need to get going, I'll catch up on commenting over the weekend.

Christiane ♥.•*¨`*•✿, Marco F. Delminho, Helena Ferreira, Gabriella Siglinde and 27 other people have particularly liked this photo


15 comments - The latest ones
 Jaap van 't Veen
Jaap van 't Veen club
Awesome landscape image Ron.
Have a nice weekend.
5 years ago.
 Malik Raoulda
Malik Raoulda club
Absolument magnifique cette vue panoramique ******
HFF et excellente fin de semaine.
5 years ago.
 Malik Raoulda
Malik Raoulda club
Admiré et apprécié avec plaisir au groupe
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5 years ago.
 Ulrich John
Ulrich John club
Wow ! What a view !
5 years ago.
 ╰☆☆June☆☆╮
╰☆☆June☆☆╮ club
Good work.⭐
◦•●◉✿ Have a great weekend✿◉●•◦
5 years ago.
 Janet Brien
Janet Brien club
Oh RON!! What a perfectly FANTABULOUS picture!!! I just love it. What a view! What majestic scenery! And from your "primative" roadside camping spot! *high five* You just gotta love that!!

Thank you so much for your update! Extremely well-written and such fun to read, with plenty of details about your adventures for me to picture brightly in my mind. I am so totally delighted at the success and good times of this trip. Nancy's pictures of Carlsbad are fantastic and I'm so pleased to know that all is going gangbusters for you guys. How nice that the weather has cooperated enough that your plans haven't been hampered. YAY!!

I have sure missed you guys...every day I check to see if you've been around, so getting a treat from the pair of you today makes me all wiggly and jumping for joy. :)

One last thing before I go! I've been slowly working my way into my gorgeous, photo-and-artwork-filled nature book and last night's spread was on "How Carnivorous Plants Work"...with great info and gorgeous macros of various species. I was thinking about you the whole time and enjoyed remembering the pictures you took at that bog. :)

See you on the flip-side, buddy! Have fun and enjoy your time!!
5 years ago.
 Hansruedi Voegele
Hansruedi Voegele club
Sehr schön Ran!
5 years ago.
 sasithorn_s
sasithorn_s
Stunning panoramic scenery, Ron! Thank you for the update info of your trip!
5 years ago.
 sasithorn_s
sasithorn_s
Have a great time and enjoy the weekend, Ron!
5 years ago.
 William Sutherland
William Sutherland club
Magnificent capture!

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5 years ago.
 Don Sutherland
Don Sutherland club
Fabulous landscape shot.
5 years ago.
 Esther
Esther club
Sounds like a great vacation. Enjoy!
5 years ago.
 Nora Caracci
Nora Caracci club
immense view !
5 years ago.
 Christiane ♥.•*¨`*•✿
Christiane ♥.•*¨`*•✿
Really impressive !
5 years ago.

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