At our first campsite about halfway to Big Bend.
There were deer hanging out nearby at a solar powered deer feeder
And peacocks on the porch!
Looking at Big Bend National Forest from a distance on our second day of the trip.
A closer look at Chisos Mountain, which is a large mountain base that has a campground and a ton of hiking trails in it.
driving to our campsite early evening on our second day.
The view of the moon over the Sierra Del Carmen mountains at our campsite in Big Bend. These mountains are actually in Mexico.
This was the most beautiful site I've ever seen! It reminded me of a movie scene!
A view of Chisos Mountain on our first full day in the park. We spent the first full day hiking in this mountain.
Hello Eric!
Coffee!
Yumm!
Chisos
Cactus
Inside Chisos mountain on a hiking trail.
Look at that tall rock!
A lady on a rock!
What is she doing on that rock?
Cool steps in a gorge!
It kind of looks like he is taking a crap. All he needs is a newspaper!
The rock finatic.
I love this place!
The Window, which is what this hike was called. It was a big opening at the end of this hike that overlooked the desert.
beautiful!
Scary!! The rocks were really slick and it was a really long ways down. (I was scared, Eric, of course, wasn't).
whoa!
On the top part of The Window overlooking the desert.
It's windy up here!
Looking back into the mountain. Apparently there are lots of Mountain Lions and Black Bears living in these mountains, but we didn't see any.
Overlooking the desert.
On our way off Chisos mountain a giant front and dust storm kicked up. It was so crazy how fast it happened and how high the winds were! We were just so thankful that we were in an RV!!! The tenters looked miserable.
Looking back at Chisos mountain getting blasted with a dust storm from our RV.
On to day two. We drove probably over 100 miles that day around to the other side of Chisos mountain.
Hiking down to an abandon ranch.
Hiking in Tuff Canyon.
Eric was in love with the geology in this canyon.
It really was so beautiful!!
Eric was so intrigued with how this rock got here.
And then, bam! The rocks changed! (At least that is what Eric told me).
Apparently the geology changes in this part of the canyon.
Mr. Daring goes rock climbing.
Santa Elena Canyon with the Rio Grande cutting through it. Now that's a canyon!
Eric showing some universal sign for geology....
Me pointing at Eric and saying "NERD!" after his whole geology arm symbol picture had to be taken.
We had to walk through some Rio Grande tributary to hike in the canyon.
The mud was so cold!!
They give rafting tours through the canyon. That would be fun!
Since the Rio Grande separates U.S. and Mexico, that side of the canyon is Mexico. I was constantly weirded out by the fact that Mexico was right there!
The Roadrunner bird!
Apparently these birds rarely fly and can run up to 20mph.
This bird was always hanging out by our camper. We think she had a nest nearby.
The third day in the park we visited the east side of the park, which was the same side where we were camping so we didn't have to drive all day. Here's the Rio Grande with Mexico on the other side.
Here you can see a horse over on the Mexico side of the river grazing on some grass.
Looking over the river.
Hiking into the Boquillas Canyon on the east side of the park.
Here's where Mexican's would boat over and try to sell their goods to tourists.
Bushwackin'
Look at that beautiful fault!
Pretty crystals.
Are there alligators in the Rio Grande?!?
Eric stealing the crystals he broke off the canyon. Bad naturist!
The RV. Ours is the smaller one on the right next to the motorcycle.
Hiking through the desert on the east side of the park on a 7-8 mile hike.
There were a bunch of ruins from an old ore mine.
They would haul these buckets of ore across the desert from these towers and cables.
This was a cool cactus with red spines.
This was the coolest panoramic view ever! Too bad I couldn't figure out how to use the panoramic view on my camera. So this is starting from the left.
still going...
and this is all the way to the right.
The ore buckets about 3 miles into our hike.
About 4 miles into our hike we had the coolest view of the whole desert! The Sierra Del Carmen mountains are behind us. They sit on the Mexico side. We determined that all the cool mountains are on the Mexico side.
Brian must live here.
Doin' a little pop lockin'
It felt like cold poop on my feet. So luxurious.
A little Mexican village over there. I felt weird looking over at the village from the RV. Like "Look at us elitists! Our traveling vacation homes are as big as your real homes.". It was strange, so we stayed our distance.
Don't be afraid, it's just a pancake egg sandwich.
