Today we went to Big Bend National Park. It had some beautiful and some interesting sights. Among the beautiful, of course, was the scenery but also some nice hiking trails including on part of the park where the Rio Grande was very shallow and you could walk across into Mexico and hike a trail up a large hill to a river on the other side. There was also a pool area on the Rio Grande held in by rocks, some man placed and some natural. I didn’t have a suit and Jamie thought it wasn’t a good idea to go without my shorts so in I went with my shorts. They dried off very quickly in the hot, arid air.

One of the interesting sights was Luna’s Jacal. This guy named Gilberto Luna built this “home” called a Jacal, a stone and thatch hut. He lived there til he died at 108 in 1947 and supposedly raised 58 children and step children.

After all our exploring we stopped for a beer at Chisos Mountain Lodge in the park.