Big Bend

I wish we had an entire month just to spend in Big Bend National Park in Texas. Unfortunately we had to settle for two nights and we only saw a fraction of the park. This place has everything: deserts, mountains, and not just any river, the Rio Grande. We drove in at night and it was kind of scary, it was so big and endless. And the night skies were so clear because there are no cities near Big Bend.

We saw deer, roadrunners, huge bugs: beetles, caterpillars, butterflies, grasshoppers, and even a tarantula crossing the road. Wayne swears he heard coyote. But we were eluded by the javelina (a wild pig) and the chupacabra (the mythical goat blood-sucking wolf creature). We also tried to catch catfish in the Rio Grande with no luck, although we did find an amazing hot spring right on the river. It's amazing how narrow the Rio Grande appears, and how easy it looks to cross the border.





















Big Bend is also full of fossils and we got to touch a hadrosaur and pteranodon fossil, and Tyler even found some seashell fossils (in Texas!). This place is truly special...