Overcast/gray/foggy 71*@ 7:15am 🌥 Up and out by 8am across the big bridge we’ve been looking at for the past few days. 8:20a we went through Customs & Border Patrol! Asked us a few questions and sent us on our way! Crossed the Pecos River and made our first stop at Judge Roy Bean Historical Texas Park. We were the only ones there that early! This was in the middle of nowhere! We toured the visitor center exhibits then the grounds, the Jersey Lily Saloon, Courtroom/Billiard Hall & Opera House that was actually his house that he died in, in 1903. Back on the road where we saw a lot of roadrunners along the road and lots of Border Patrols on the parallel dirt road for miles! Here there was nothing as far as the eye could see, right out of a western…..rocks, dirt, scruffy looking bushes, hills and wire fences! I’m looking for a Texas Ranger to appear! Came to a small run down town- Sanderson, population 837, created in 1882…there was a gas station and low and behold they had fountain diet cokes! 🥤 I’m a happy camper out in nowhere! As we continued this adventure only fields of goats and cows then out of nowhere a small brick building on the shoulder area with a red and yellow Buc-ee’s emblem on it! The tiniest one in Texas! 1:00 pm we arrived at Big Bend National Park It’s 3 big parks…desert, mountains & water! We drove 35 miles into the park before we got to the visitor center. There we toured the exhibits, watched a movie about the area and talked to the ranger. OMG it’s hot here! By 2:40pm…20 miles down the road we checked into Rio Grande Village RV Park….well about that….it’s an asphalt parking lot! Site 15 Full hookups so we turned on both AC units! We drove Chisos Basin Road to the ranger station where we turned in our Jr Ranger book and got our badge and the ranger told us not to take hikes tonight because it was 118* to stay inside and drink lots of fluids! Never had we seen such a temperature. So we drove into the Mountainous part of the park where we came upon the Chisos Basis Lodge built in 1964 and they had a restaurant. We enjoyed a drink, appetizer then a chicken sandwich. We took a short hike there. Before going back to the campsite I needed to see Mexico and the Rio Grande River. Unfortunately the crossing was closed for 2 days! Had my hopes of crossing the border for a true Mexican Margarita!🍸 Not tonight! We went to Boquillas overlook and saw Mexico, cows crossing the Rio Grande and then on the mountain top Mexican trinkets with a metal canister to put money in if you’d like to buy something. Prices were on the items and YES I contrabanded! We didn’t find out that until we got back to the RV and read the park newsletter saying it was illegal to buy items unless you go over to Boquillas De Carmen, Mexico! It’s now 9pm and 100*! 🌡 We traveled 313 miles today.
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