Yeah, in another 30 minutes, no more traffic! I rode 610 this day. I even stopped by the Pinal Air Park and took a few pictures so I would have something to blog. That is until this army guy made me delete them. Oh well, I made it to Van Horn, TX and will start taking a few pics tomorrow.

I stopped at Prada Marfa. It's is supposed to be saying something about extravagance. Not sure if it is referring to the shoes or the motorcycle.

I think you have to make your own interpretation.

1957 Cadillac  2door hardtop. Most beautiful car Caddy ever made. This was classy, not gaudy like the 59! :)

I heard they celebrate something here in February

An Aerostat dock

All the recording equipment in the big building

All of the surveillance stuff in here.

Last year Sherm and I took the direct route from Marfa to Big Bend. This year I'm going a different route.

I went via the city of Presidio and the ride there was gorgeous.

There were thousands of these yucca's flowering.

They don't all flower as the plant dies as a result. At least that is what someone told me.....probably Sherm. :)

These cowboys were rounding up the herd.

Probably just moving them, they don't look ready for slaughter.

The road is starting to drop down to the Rio Grande valley and the town of Presidio

On the near side of the valley is Presidio, and across the valley is the Mexican town of Ojinaga.

Presidio is about 5000 pop. and Ojinaga is about 22000

I like the beauty that the Mexican Catholics display in their churches and their grounds.

That was a while back

Simple and beautiful

Not ashamed of their belief

Easier to program the GPS in the shade

The first blue bonnets of the trip

now they are almost non-stop on the sides of the road.

Just a trickle now, but during the flash floods this wash is full.

I've seen more already than I saw all last year minus the wild-flower farm.

BTW, I am now riding through Big Bend Ranch, a Texas State Park that lies just northwest of Big Bend, NP.

This is the Rio Grande River

This state park is made up of many cattle ranches, both active and......

......inactive

These cactus blooms don't last long. Sometimes only one day.

I was lucky to snap this just before they disappeared.

Sometimes the photo's speak better for them selves than I do.

This movie set was left after the filming was done.

This is the cemetery for the town of Lajitas. It is a very upscale resort town. I couldn't afford it so continued on to the bottom of the hill.

At the bottom of this hill lies the ghost town of Terlingua.

Here you can park your motorcycle at your doorstep.

I'd take this room any day......great wi-fi too!

Only negative is my cell phone doesn't work.

I think they mostly mined mercury and uranium here.

Lots of gravesites

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I guess you can call this art............

.....if you want to.

I did find some Sherm art. :)

This gal and her husband got a kick out of it too. 

One of the old buildings turned into a covered picnic area.

Lots of old buildings from the mining times that are abandoned.

And a lot of them have been re-purposed.

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Okay, tomorrow it is on to Big Bend National Park, but not the part we toured last year.