zi464 wrote:
Looks like I have to ask my fiancé if she would like to go Big Bend State Park, lol
Totally worth it! Years ago (back when Terlingua was still a ghost town inhabited largely by artists) I took a road trip for work, following the Rio Grande from McAllen, Texas all the way up to Taos, New Mexico, staying in national parks and fish & wildlife refuges the whole way. Big Bend National Park was incredible. The park is so large that it has its own Zip code, and what I remember most, apart from having to constantly dodge javelinas on the road, was the diversity of landscapes packed into it, from desert to forested mountains. I also remember the smell of creosote bush, the thud of jackrabbits' feet on the desert floor, and the still-steaming pile of mountain lion scat that we encountered in the middle of a trail early one morning.