🎵 The stars at night are big and bright … deep in the heart of Texas 🎵 … or in this case the superior vena cava (depending on your point of view of course) and the stars may be bright but it’s so freakin cold at night that we haven’t set up the telescope to see how big they are!
Laura flew into El Paso, rented a car, and headed down to meet us (this also has the added benefit of giving us some way to get around while we find the perfect vehicle to tow). We’ve made camp for the week at the Lost Alaskan RV Resort – the current owners are from Idaho – in the town of Alpine which is between our next two sight seeing destinations, Big Bend National Park, one hundred miles south and Guadalupe Mountains National Park, one hundred fifty to the northwest.
Alpine is a small town with a population of around 6,000 so we when we started looking for some entertainment it wasn’t with high expectations. Still, it’s also a college town, being home to Sul Ross State University, so we figured there would be more than nothing. What we found was Railroad Blues, a funky live music, beer, liquor and wine joint that has hosted acts from Arlo Guthrie to The Red Elvises. There are autographed band photos papering a couple walls and kitschy art everywhere so it was with no surprise that the act we heard that night goes by the name of “Jeb Spacepilot and the Snowglobe of Truth”. He’s probably an interesting guy but we didn’t stay to speak to him. Jeb played mostly grungy music and liked to talk about things that were different on “his planet”.
Dessert that night came from a food truck out front: the buffalo wings were good but the fries were soggy and both were served without napkins – come on guy, you’re selling finger food!
