Marfa and the Big Bend

Jerri and I left on a chilly Friday morning for our annual trip to the Big Bend National Park. After a stop in Ft. Stockton for lunch we headed for Alpine and an overnight stop in Marfa. We stayed at the Hotel Paisana, an historic hotel built in the 1930s and was the home base for the movie Giant starring James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor. At dark we headed out to see the Marfa lights and were successful. The lights cannot be explained and we seen by the Apaches. We enjoyed the ride from Marfa to Presidio and along the River Road to the Big Bend National Park area. We rode the entire park as usual. Sunday afternoon we held up in the motel because of a dust storm and a county wide power outage. We made it back to San Angelo by early afternoon on Monday.