Here’s some pictures I took while visiting Big Bend last month. People keep telling me that Big Bend is beautiful. I dunno. I guess there are uglier places in America, particularly if you count a lot of the urban areas like Dallas.
Here for instance is the Rio Grande as seen from the road between Lajitas and Presidio. I somehow angled the camera so that the image looks sideways no matter what the orientation.
By the way, Presidio? Not all that it’s cracked up to be.
Here’s a picture of some mountains, taken during the ten minutes in which Texas is beautiful. And when I say “mountains” I really mean what passes for mountains in Texas: big piles of naked dirt. Considering this is Terlingua, they may actually be tailings from a mercury mine.
The place where we stayed had a lot of debris just lying around.
Here’s some piles of rock:
But I did get some relaxation in.
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Aw, this post makes me kind of sad because I do think West Texas is very beautiful. (Although I agree that Presidio is not so great.)
Aw, I’m sorry, Joolie. Wait until the fishing big bend post, which will have some awe-inspiring photos of the Big C amid the grandeur of the Santa Elena canyon.
YAY!