Our last day of 2016 was a busy one. We happily said adios
to our White’s City parking spot and planned a morning hike at Guadalupe
National Park just south of Carlsbad, but a frigid 19 degrees kept us only to
an interpretive trail around the visitor center. How far south are we going to
have to go to get warm? We hit the road for south Texas and the Mexico border.
I made sure our route took us through Marfa, Texas. Laine
and I visited here last year when we were driving across country. Marfa was put
on the map for the mysterious lights that flash in the night sky. They have a
viewing building for this, but I haven’t made it there at night to see what the
hub-bub is about. The town is now an artist enclave with a few galleries and
interesting restaurants.
A few miles outside of town is an art installation depicting a Prada storefront in the middle of nowhere. It’s a false storefront, you can’t go in and shop, strictly for window shopping. The fence behind the “store” is covered with locks like the love locks on the bridge over the Seine in Paris.
We ended the day and the year at an RV park just outside Big
Bend National Park.
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