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A road trip through Big Bend National Park

Big Bend National Park has the kind of vastness that makes you wonder “how many years would it take anyone to realize I had disappeared out here?”I’m going to guess at least a week. It’s about two hours off the...

July 26, 2013
2 min read

Adventure Blog Road Tripping Texas Travel

Contrabando: Texas’ Hollywood ghost town

Contrabando looks so authentic that you’d swear it must be fake – and you’d be right, because it is. The small-but-well-preserved ‘ghost town’ was built in 1985 as a movie set up for the film Uphill all the Way, and...

June 5, 2013
3 min read

Adventure Blog Road Tripping Texas Travel

Terlingua, TX: The hippie ghost town time forgot

Ahh, Terlingua – where the temperature is so hot you’ll swear your AC is broken and cash is optional. That’s right – Terlingua is that rarest of towns, a ghost-town-turned-hippie-and-arts-commune-that-is-actually-still-kind-of-a-ghost-town. You know, one of those. There are a good amount...