{"id":1005,"date":"2018-04-13T16:01:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T23:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aultcommunications.com\/rambles\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2018-04-13T17:12:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T00:12:02","slug":"theres-an-awful-lot-of-texas-to-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aultcommunications.com\/rambles\/?p=1005","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s an Awful Lot of Texas to Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve spent the better part (in more ways than one) of a week in Texas, and we like what we’ve seen so far.<\/p>\n

Davis Mountains State Park and the area around it\u2014including the towns of Fort Davis, Alpine, and Marfa\u2014provided a warm introduction to “Far West” Texas. We saw a historic fort<\/a> named for the president<\/a> of a country that fought the U.S. in our bloodiest war, ate ginormous breakfast burritos in someone’s backyard<\/a>, and strolled through an indoor\/outdoor botanical and cactus garden<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Our next stop was Big Bend National Park<\/a>. I’ve been kind of obsessed with visiting here since grade school back in Massachusetts, when we studied the National Parks and I wondered what circumstances might ever bring me to this remote slice of southern Texas jammed up against the Mexican border. (I was similarly obsessed with Glacier National Park in the wilds of northern Montana, which I finally got to see a couple years ago.) Still, I was worried that three days would be too long a stay at Big Bend and we would run out of things to see and do. In hindsight, that seems like a pretty stupid concern.<\/p>\n

With 800,000 acres of varied terrain\u2014from the dry Chihuahuan Desert, to the rugged Chisos Mountains, to the lush green ribbon of the Rio Grande\u2014there was more than enough to keep us entertained. You can check out some of what we saw and did in the gallery below.<\/p>\n\n\t\t