Friday April 7th
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| cheap but costly |
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| one dip spot of several in the Rio Grande |
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| Starlight |
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| Starlight parking lot |
Out of expensive cheap motel after a disturbing session the evening before with my cell vendor played out in the game room wifi zone of same. Backtracked to swinging hot spot in the Terlingua ghost town also last evening. Mass tourists with a sprinkling of desert rats and hustlers. Nice though. Had earlier whipped up to the Big Bend Nat’l Park gatehouse and left with tail between legs since Mr. Nice Guy park ranger explained patiently that there was a very slim chance thta if we drove 32 miles to the nearest camp we would find a spot. That we should maybe turn around and go find somewhere else to sleep.
No problem. Next morning, this one, we hustled over and snagged a nice one under the cottonwoods by the Rio.
Set up and biked toward St. Elena Canyon not intending to go all the way but sort of did. S stayed at a river side rest after we cooled with a dip perhaps floating into old Mexico briefly and I slogged it back in the noonday sun to get car and grocery but on my return to S at the reststop pompous old Ohioan started up a stealth earth was created let’s just say a long time ago and these geology lectures the rangers gave at night had hurt and disgusted him and he was about to take it out on us so we grapped two cold ones and headed over the closest rise and about succumbed to the heat/alcohol syndrome. Great view from there of the St. Elena Canyon of the Rio Grande.
Returned to camp to rest and will return to the trail into the canyon when it is cooler. A lot.
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| On return in the eventing to St. Elena Canyon - Rio Grande takes an arbitrary turn through the massif |
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