Sunday

Big Bend. Last night’s weather never hit. We watched severe weather all around, but it just seemed to circle us. All we got was wind.

We headed off this morning for Big Bend. We’ve been driving back and forth past the turn-off to Big Bend for 30 years. Finally, we did it. It isn’t the best time of year to be in Big Bend. It’s pretty hot here now. But we’re here.

Now my audit software doesn’t work and we won’t have any cellphone service, so I’ll probably give up trying to work while I’m here and just take a couple days completely off. I put a message on the cellphone and an auto-response on email saying we’ll be off the grid for a couple days. We’ll reestablish contact soon. (Turns out we do have sporadic email.)

It wasn’t hard to find a place to camp. The national park campground is a parking lot campground, and it was basically empty, but there are full hookups. We’re not here for the campground anyway. We’re here for the access it gives us to all the stuff around it.
Right off the bat while we were still hooking up, we got the Common Blackhawk circling above us. Life bird!

Here is what the campground looks like at 108 degrees.