Warning: Use of undefined constant gad_content_tag_filter_replace - assumed 'gad_content_tag_filter_replace' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /home/dx87kwtjkt0i/public_html/wp-content/plugins/web-ninja-google-analytics/webninja_ga.php on line 1813

Alpine, Texas deserves more than a posting upon leaving town and grab shots on the way out of town.  Nice place; I could probably live there except for the summer temperatures. The overnight temps during our pre-Solstice visit to Alpine conspired to keep me in during the early AM, missing the nice morning light.

Oh well … getting old or getting lazy. Maybe both.

We stayed at the BC Ranch RV Park on RT 118 N going out of town towards Fort Davis.

We would both go back again. Some folks never leave.

Nice people all the way around. Good facilities. What you see is what you get: No frills, but who needs the frills. Affordable pricing.

Leaving town a local rancher said hello and then wise-cracked about the tow car asking, “Where did you get my golf cart?”  He did not hang around to take the measure of my sense of humor.

😉

We truly enjoyed the  Museum of the Big Bend on the campus of the Sul Ross State University. The museum was an extremely well done presentation.

The Texas Fusion restaurant was recommend by one of the ladies at BC Ranch RV and she was spot on: excellent food at affordable prices with a friendly and informative wait staff. We would go back to Texas Fusion as well.

Alpine seems to be the ranch / college town while Marfa, the ranch / bohemian town. Both deserve time and exploration.

The Museum of the Big Bend highlights the Gallego family’s egalitarianism through their ownership of the Green Cafe and their presence in the affairs of the Alpine community.

From a different time in Texas history  the authors of Myth, Memory and Massacre seem to  give Lawrence Sullivan ‘Sul’ Ross, the university’s namesake, a decidedly different treatment.

In a perfect world it might be the Pete Almodova Gallego State University.