Showing posts with label Alpine Texas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alpine Texas. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Feeling hot, hot, hot! in Big Bend National Park.

I'm cramming a lot of stuff into this brief wifi oasis, so coherence and wit are out of the question. Please see the teller for a full refund.

Wolfgang Rebesky and Santa Elena Canyon
Kayaking the Rio Grande at Santa Elena Canyon. The water is an illusion, but the portaging makes up for the fun.


Marfa Bunny. He's real.

Prada?  Not even really Marfa, the installation is outside Valentine, Texas.

What? I'm kayaking again??


Santa Elena Canyon, Rio Grande.
Full disclosure: The Rio Grande at this point is mostly extra-suction-y, knee-high clay, with long stretches of pointy rocks. I have actual sole bruises.

Temperatures have been hovering around 105 degrees F, which is not so much a temperature as an IQ. Still, it's a desiccating heat. My traveling companion feels that mid-afternoon is the perfect time to hit the shadeless trails, so I stay under the palms to demonstrate how Americans do things.

That was an unfortunate segue to this picture.