Shivering under the Guale Sky
Fresh off of a bunkhouse slumber, we were ready to take on the Guale expedition. Squeezing in one last Top Chef episode in the commercial kitchen before Sheri packed her knives to go, we ate all of the eggs that
Bunk House Blues
Guale 2 is considered the most beautiful, most remote and most challenging to get to campground in the Ranch, so of course we had to go there. With Eric still full blown sick, winds gusting at 45 mph and temps
Vista Del Bofecillos
Big Bend Ranch State Park is not so much an attraction as it is an enormously sprawling expanse of desert beginning at a mountain range and dropping into the Colorado River. Attractions and accessibility are what they have at National
West Texas Bound
The most inconvenient thing about remote places is that they are really hard to get to. West Texas makes headlines every now and then when mainstream media needs a tasty travel morsel to titillate the imaginations of their big-city audiences
Deep in the Art of Texas
West Texas is among our favorite lonely places in the US. We off-roaded into the interior of Big Bend Ranch State Park (BBRSP) at length, living 10 days in some of the most inaccessible destinations such as Guale and Rincon.
Hi-line Byline
It all began with an article in the NYT about a legendary road running across the northernmost U.S., a yearning for another encounter with the barren Badlands and a cold-war Air Force Base that we just had to buy to
There’s no I in NE-KS-AR, OK!
We were a grungy hot mess when we walked into the Sunset Grill, but cheery Brianna greeted us with hot coffee like we were regulars. Taking her advice on the off-menu breakfast order of 2 eggs over medium with sausage
On the Wall of Wind and Rain
The Badlands are exactly what they say they are. Bad Lands. The American desert will punish you for doing nothing wrong. All we wanted to do was pass through and pay our respects. Instead we got walloped. It’s rare that
FaceTime at Rushmore
No visit to the Black Hills of South Dakota would be complete without a stop at the granddaddy of outdoor sculptures, Mount Rushmore. The great thing about Mount Rushmore is that it is such an “in-your-face” monument. There is no
Buffalo Roundup
A few hundred years ago, there were 50 million buffalo on the American plains. Through a few decades of questionably hard work in the 1800’s, and unquestionably good aim, government sanctioned hunters were able to reduce that number to less