Posted on 03/07/2012 6:13:49 PM PST by Army Air Corps
Very interesting people. I'll not stop ever again on 84. My accent is incorrect.
Dearly love Texas and New Mexico, and my heart is torn. But NM nearly gutted and killed me, so I spend more time in Texas these days.
/johnny
Spent three days on the river there, canoeing thru the Mariscal in the Spring.
Gorgeous country in the Spring -- everything in bloom, from gigantic bluebonnets, to claret cup cacti to the palo verde trees.
Which, at least, has the distinction of being home to the Silver Moon Cafe.
Do you eat beef?
It has a rugged beauty that takes you to a place that is timeless and is still unaware of the folly of man.
The drive from Balmorhea, to Ft. Davis, to Alpine is one of my favourites.
Ah yes, been there.
That is not the case.
I was never hurt on NM SH 84. (And not credibly threatened, although I didn't hang around to debate the point)
I simply fell off a cliff on a remote mountain during a snowstorm near LV, NM. Completely unrelated.
/johnny
To the best of my recollection, your honor.
I assume that you see the logic in me being celibate and single for the the last decade. ;)
/johnny
Yes, I gleefully eat beef when I can afford it.
/johnny
Lubbock has the best people I've ever met - I'm sorry you haven't had time to meet some of them.
Me, too. There are things to like about all three towns -- especially San Solomon Springs. What a pleasant oasis -- somewhere south of East Nowhere. Not to mention the very interesting history encompassed by the area. And the terrain in between is simply beautiful.
Also, the drive from Ft. Stockton to Balmorhea isn’t bad either. I also enjoy the drive from Alpine to Marfa. There are a ton of good backroads in that area and I have driven on most of them.
But not the drive north out of Balmorhea. That is the urgliest part of my beloved Texas I've ever seen.
Yeah, that stretch from Balmorhea to Pecos to Monahans is...well...like something out of Mad Max.
“I don’t know why, but something about the name ‘Occupy Lubbock’ is hilarious.”
It’s about as out of place as a nun in a nudist colony.
As Lloyd Maines says: on a really clear day, you can look off to the horizon and see the back of your own head...
For me, the weird part is you can look in all directions and it ALL looks uphill.
On the road between Gail and Post SE of Lubbock is an historical marker telling about the arrowheads they've found in the area - dated from before the time when Coronado came through the area in the early 1500s.
Imagine trying to hunt buffalo in that country - without horses.
We took our eldest granddaughter on a vacation out that way. Did Carlsbad, Guadalupe, a couple of nights at Balmorhea and the springs, a few more nights in Alpine, doing the circle into Big Bend and back. Returned via Sonora and the caverns there -- every bit as beautiful as Carlsbad is enormous.
Saw a lot of back country...and herds of antelope and mule deer. Lots of wildlife. She was pretty excited.
Missed the Marfa lights, though...
For me, the weird part is you can look in all directions and it ALL looks uphill.
Was driving north of Eads, CO in March a few years ago.
Something struck me about the landscape, so I pulled over, stopped and got out of the car.
After searching the horizon all the way around the compass, it came to me. There was absolutely no relief in any direction, the horizon was perfectly flat 360 (though I imagine "downhill" was to the east, toward Kansas).
Moreover, there were only three colors. The black asphalt of the highway, the dun-beige of the landscape (Spring had not yet arrived)...and the shockingly blue sky, where not a cloud was to be seen.
It was a landscape by an abstract painter -- using three colors...and a ruler.
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