It may be some time before I can update the blog from West Texas. To keep you entertained, feel free to google any of the towns I am passing through. Many have quite a history or a unique draw...for example:
Marfa: mysterious Marfa lights some say are UFOs or the result of a UFO crash in Mexico 40 miles awayhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFnDrG1iH04
Marfa: site of the Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean film "Giant" as well as an artsy place in the middle of the Texas deserthttp://our.tentativetimes.net/marfa/
Marfa: Site of filming for "There Will Be Blood" and "No Country for Old Men"http://www.courierpress.com/news/2008/Feb/24/1-stoplight-2-movies-and-16-academy-award-to/
Marathon: Site of the Gage Hotel, a piece of civilization out in the middle of nowhere
http://www.gagehotel.com/________________
Wed May 28th: Brackettville, TX. Fort Clark Springs Motel
Thursday May 29th: 30 miles to Del Rio, TX, Warmshowers.org host: James McDermott
Friday May 30th: +300' and 41 miles to just west of Comstock, TX: camping at Seminole Canyon State Historic Park
Saturday May 31st: 20 miles to camp at the Judge Roy Bean Visitor Center(stopping here to make the next day reasonable, no showers here; if feel good Friday, may just come right here instead of Seminole Canyon though they have nice showers there and some good hiking)
Sunday June 1st: +1,400' and 61 miles to Sanderson, TX: guesthouse of warmshowers.org host Liz Rogers
Monday June 2nd: staying put in the gueshouse of Liz Rogers
Tuesday June 3rd: +1,100' and 55 miles to Marathon, TX, Gage Hotel or Marathon Motel
Wed June 4th: +500' and 31 miles to Alpine, TX, warmshowers.org host Liz Rogers
Thurday June 5th: 26 miles to Marfa, TX, Hotel Paisano Thunderbird Hotel or Riata Inn
Friday June 6th: 78 miles to Van Horn, TX (not sure how to break this ride up)Days Inn or other motel
Saturday June 7th: +500' and 33 miles to Sierra Blanca, TXEl Camino Motelor Sierra Motel
Sunday June 8th: -1,000' and 46 miles to Fort Hancock, TX, Fort Hancock motel
Monday June 9th: 48 miles to El Paso, TX, maybe a warmshowers.org host
Tuesday June 10th: rest in El Paso TX and plan next leg through New Mexico
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