A day off our bicycles and an auto tour of Big Bend NP. Bubba organized an eight vehicle day long visit to one of the national parks that I had not visited. I took more pictures here than all the rest of the trip. However, I will need more time to sort and post them.
We started the day with a big breakfast cooked by Chef Ann and set out for the park. It is an astonishing collection of stark and bleak desert landscapes surrounding the Chizos Mountain oasis with elevations up to 8000 ft. You find evergreens, oaks and the southern most stand of aspen growing there in the midst of desert. We learned that this park as well as so many others, benefited in the 1930's from the work of the CCC to construct roads and the Chizos Mtn lodge and cottages. They all enjoy a magnificent view through a Window on the mountains looking out to the plain leading down to the Rio Grande River.
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