October 10-11, 2023 – Big Bend National Park, TX




On Tuesday, we decided to go to Chisos Basin in the late afternoon and then have dinner at The Chisos Mountains Lodge.  It was much less crowded than when we were here on Saturday and more enjoyable.  The scenery around the lodge was very nice.






We walked the Window View Trail, a short loop trail to the Window Pour-off Overlook – a pour-off is a seasonal waterfall.  The view was beautiful.







We saw this cute Acorn Woodpecker sitting on a dead tree beside the trail.





After our walk and we went to the Chisos Mountains Lodge and had a very nice dinner, drinks and dessert while looking at the beautiful mountains.  Rex is patiently waiting for the waiter to bring his beer.






After dinner we walked around the area as the setting sun was lighting up this mountain beautifully.





The park brochure said that the Window View Overlook was the best place in the park to watch the sunset, so we walked back down the trail and – it was breathtaking.  We spent almost an hour watching the different colors as the sun was setting.  We are so glad we decided to drive back up here this evening.








And another bonus – on the way back to the parking lot was saw these two Whitetail Deer grazing beside the trail.





On the way back out of the park, we drove a short distance down the Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive and pulled off at a turnout to watch the stars.  The light pollution is very minimal here and we were fortunate that there were few clouds tonight.  It was amazing to see so many stars and the Milky Way.  It has been a long time since we could see the sky this clearly.

Wednesday, we decided to spend our last day here relaxing and getting the motorhome ready to travel.  

We have greatly enjoyed our time here at Big Bend National Park, this is an amazing place to visit.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

June 4-6, 2009

Image
June 4, 2009 We drove Northwest of Jasper along the Yellowhead Highway to Mount Robson Provincial Park. We saw a moose along the river in the distance but wasn’t close enough to get a picture. We saw Yellowhead Lake and Moose Lake, and had a picnic lunch at the Mt. Robson Visitors Center. The scenery is spectacular – a picture of Mt. Robson. Our site at Whistler campground. June 5 We left Jasper in the sunshine and warm but the further North we got, the colder, rainier and more grey it got. As we turned north on route 40 to Grand Paririe, we started to hit a little snow. Didn’t last long but really woke us up. It stayed rainy and grey until we got to Grand Cache then it started to clear. We also got our first real windshield chip today, but a trip to WalMart and a windshield repair kit later we were fixed. The land here is somewhat hilly, swampy and covered with trees. There are some really big oil and gas complexes and some large lumber mills such as the one we saw in Grand Paririe.
Read more

August 24-26, 2009

Image
We headed towards Flathead Lake Monday morning and stopped in Kalispell to get our air conditioner repaired. It had stopped working a couple of weeks ago and August is not the time to be without an air conditioner. The RV dealer we stopped at gave us the name of the guy who does their air conditioning work. He was able to fix the air conditioner (a switch had burned out) in a couple of hours and we were on our way. We drove to Polson, MT at the south end of Flathead Lake and are going to stay here for a few days. We are staying at Eagle Nest RV, which has a cherry orchard on one side, a golf course on one side and a horse pasture on another side. It is a really nice park with lots of grass and trees. Unfortunately, we are at the end of the cherry season and we might not be able to find any fresh cherries. Tuesday morning we decided to take a drive around Flathead Lake. This is a very scenic area with lots of fruit orchards. We found a fruit stand and bought cherries, peaches, tomatoes
Read more

July 28, 2009

Image
We left Valdez this morning in rain and fog and retraced our route back up the Richardson Highway. We ran out of the fog and rain after we went over Thompson Pass and thought we would be able to see more of the scenery. Not to be, shortly we ran into more smoke. We stopped at the visitor center at Wrangell-St. Elias National Park but it was really smoky so we didn’t stay very long. The ranger there (we think he was a ranger but he looked about 15 years old!) told us that there are currently 60 fires in Alaska and the smoke here is from the fires North of here around Fairbanks. Wrangell-St. Elias National Park is the largest national park in the US at 13.2 million acres. There are only 2 short gravel roads in the park so access is limited to backpacking, hiking and flight seeing. The park is mainly wilderness and has 4 major mountain ranges in it and includes 9 of the 16 highest peaks in the US. Unfortunately, because of the smoke we were not able to see any of them. We turned off the R
Read more