Big Bend to Davis Mountains...

2010-03-06: Today we drove from Cottonwood Camp in Big Bend to Davis Mountains Texas State Park. We stopped one last time in Study Butte to charge diesel, then drove to Alpine, TX.

Charging gas in Study Butte

The Study Butte store is a colorful, interesting place if you drive through, stop, stretch your legs, read the signs, and chat with the locals.

This is the place where brilliant minds assemble to willfully pool ignorance with questionable logic in order to reach absurd conclusions.

The world needs more Go-Go Girls

In Alpine I engaged in my first traffic oops! by driving the wrong way in one of Alpine's main streets. I never assumed that such a small town would have “One Way” streets. Alarmed Alpinites flashed their high beams as I swerved away from incoming traffic. By sheer luck, the way to avoid impending disaster, was to pull into a gas station where we landed perfectly in front of a diesel pump. Let's take this as a sign to re-fuel. Oh! Well, something for the Sunday church goers to talk about: “Did you see that ding-dong pulling a silver trailer the wrong way on Main Street? I tell'ya, dang tourists are ruining the place.

Campsite in Davis Mountains

We arrived at Davis Mountains State Park past midday. The area is beautiful. The high altitude changed the landscape from desert to high plateaus endlessly covered with tall yellow grass. We parked the Silver Whale in a pull through camping site with full hookups. Then drove to the town of Fort Davis to check it out. It is a pretty cute town. From the other towns in the region, Terlingua, Alpine, and Marfa, Fort Davis is the one that I like the most. Lots of houses for sale here....First candidate for relocation?

View from atop Davis Mountains