Road Trip - Day 27: Marfa, TX

Marfa, Texas was a last minute addition to the trip thanks to Glynn and Melissa. We wanted to avoid a 10 hour drive in one day (Dallas to Santa Fe) so this gave us a perfect diversion.

The drive there was desolate, aside from a few trucks we were the only people on the road for at least 100 miles. The scenery was pretty, and I can tell we are getting closer to Arizona!

There was a crazy rain storm in the distance

We checked into our swanky tent at El Cosmico. Chris was not impressed, I thought it was cool, definitely a little hippie, but cool nonetheless.

Home sweet home

America!  

We were pretty hungry so we headed out to dinner pretty much immediately. There are only two restaurants open on Monday nights so it wasn’t a difficult decision. We picked Jett’s and were off. Well, Jett had a different idea, we were greeted with a sign on the door that said, “no food, only drinks tonight.” I did have a slight internal panic…what if the other place is closed too….we have one clif bar or a 50 mile drive to another town, that had food, maybe. It all worked out, we ate at Cochineal and it was really good, but they know they have a captive audience and the prices reflect that, of course :) 

Super random beer garden/firewood storage at the Lone Horse

We wanted a little more local color before retiring to our tent, so we stopped in at the Lone Horse Salon, at least that is what I think it was called. That is where we met Tina and she was awesome! She has traveled the world working in International schools as a teacher – she was on a state park road trip of CO and TX in her RV with her 2 dogs, 1 of which had 3 legs. Just to paint part of the picture. I regret not taking a picture with her :(

She was headed to the Marfa Lights and convinced us to go with her. The Marfa lights are these unexplained lights that have been appearing about 10 miles outside of Marfa since the late 1800s. They were AMAZING. So glad we did it - we probably stayed for an hour, with wine of course. We saw up to eight lights at a time and all different colors - green, red, orange, purple. The lights split and merged back together - it was really cool. It definitely something you have to see to believe!

One the way out of town we stopped at the famous Prada display, literally in the middle of nowhere. It is actually about 35 miles outside of Marfa closer to Valentine. It is so strange and I’m pretty sure there is now a bullet hole in the front window, oh Texas. 

We are now about to leave Santa Fe, NM – Southern NM is a strange place and a really, really boring drive, avoid it if you can, but Northern NM is beautiful.