[This message has been edited by BRP (edited 1/15/2008 11:55a).]

Big Bend in July.......[/walking away, shaking head}

Uncle lives there, my parents moved to Alpine.

I don't visit often. To each his own.

You should go to the Chili Cook off before you get married. Holy Crap!

indeed

my dad won the chili cook off in 1976.

i'm cool by association.

Cool.

My parents just moved to Alpine and we drove down to Terlingua last month when we were visiting them. It's a strange yet cool place. We definitely want to go to the chili cookoff sometime soon (probably not this year), but weren't sure where we would stay in/around Terlingua. Any ideas?

Need to check out the Lajitas Resort..Incredible oasis in the desert!

Have had many a good time out there since I was fourteen. Have a lot of family history in the area and will end up in the Big Bend region, when I can live without working. Love everything from Marathon to Valentine and everything south. Just hope the rest of the world doesn't dig in much deeper than they already have.

Ok, i have a terlingua horror story.

The roommates and i went to big bend in early august and stayed at the basin, probably the nicest weather you could find in the state of texas for that time of year.

we decide to go through terlingua on our way to mexico on a quick day trip. we are running out of gas and decide to stop in terlingua for gas at one of the two gas stations there. we get into town and are basically on 'E' only to find out they have no power at either gas station. we are told by a local that this happens frequently and that the power should be back on quickly. we hang out, and the hours begin to pass.

after about 3 hours we head to the starlight and sit on the porch with a group of locals that can only be described as 'rough'. honestly, it was like i was in the beginning to a novel, and someone was about to die. these are the kind of people that have done something bad, like not paid taxes for the last 35 years, and needed a place to disappear: enter terlingua. we hang out at the starlight for about 4 hours and these guys are plastered drunk, most drive home as the only police officer we saw the whole time was at the bar with us that night.

eventually we decide there is no better place to wait other than the fina station, so we park at the gas pump and are forced to sleep in the car/on the car for the entire night until the station owner finally brings a generator and gets the pumps running again.

needless to say i dont have fun memories of terlingua.

I guess it is just me but that sounds like fun??

sounds like a lot of fun to me.

Been there - done that ! Leaving tomorrow for a month in that area - gonna do it again & it can be fun in the right frame of mind ! Those dudes on the porch @ Terlingua aren't nearly as "rough" as they would like ya to believe !