There were a few things I forgot to include in yesterday's blog.
One afternoon, while we were in Alpine last week and after Suzanne had finished work for the day, we took a ride to the Fort Davis National Historic Site.
Fort Davis was built in 1854 to protect Army garrisons from winter weather. It also...
"...was strategically located to protect emigrants, mail coaches, and freight wagons on the trans-Pecos portion of the San Antonio-El Paso Road and the Chihuahua Trail, and to control activities on the southern stem of the Great Comanche War Trail and Mescalero Apache war trails."
It was a very interesting place - one of the best preserved forts from this period in American history with some fascinating stories associated with it. The Wikipedia link I included above (and again HERE) is well worth the read!
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Also, at the Judge Roy Bean Visitor Center, in addition to the Jersey Lilly was the Opera House - which really wasn't an opera house at all - but rather Bean's house.
He called it an opera house in the hope of luring Lilly Langtry, a famous actress of the day with whom he was apparently obsessed, to travel to his little S#@!hole town in West Texas (that he named in her honor) and perform there.
She didn't.
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Then there was this picture I took from our campsite in Alpine. It looked as if the clouds decided to complete the top of this mountain...
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And finally, this photo of Suzanne and me at the Rio Grande in Boquillas Canyon in Big Bend National Park...
I guess that's about it.
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