Day 9 Friday Dec10 Big Bend National Park

 Greetings from Van Horn Texas!  PLEASE REPLY so we know your looking😀🌵We are 1 mile from the mountain time zone it was light till 6:30 tonight.

Where to begin, let’s start with the refrigerator issue, after playing around with it we got it to work perfect for 2 days then last night it put out a flashing light with an error code and that was that it completely died so calls were made to Winnebago, Norcold, and a few rv dealers and we were told everything from even if we could get the parts there is no opening for at least 2 weeks, advise from a Winnebago forum etc we managed to find a new one (1600+ labor) like the one we have and it will be installed on Monday Dec 13, next week! We are so relieved and tired of babysitting the fridge. Can I have an Amen.

If any of you ever get the chance to go to Big Bend National Park it is worth every minute of the drive. This park is very isolated with some unique features like you get to hear donkeys braying at all hours of the night, kind of cute at first. Second there in an actual crossing to Mexico across the Rio Grande from the campground either by boat or you can swim/ walk if the water is low enough on specific days and times very structured, we did not bring passports so we did not go this time, the town on the Mexican side is called Boquillas Del Carmen a very poor town far removed from any thing there are 3 bars/restaurants and a little store but that’s it for work so to help earn money is to make little trinkets and walking sticks and when you go walking on the trails there you find them on the side of the road for sale.

$6-10 each handmade

Big Bend is so big and so vast you don’t know where to look first. We were happy to see 2 boondocking friends we met 3 years ago in NH Alan and Lorraine from MA staying at Big Bend so we visited each other’s campers ( all triple vaccinated) and plan to meet up in Arizona. I find it hard to describe so I will let the following pictures speak for themselves. The weather there was in the 70s & 80s during the day and   40s at night. Today was so windy we had to slow down to stay safe but we had a shorted distance to go so it worked out. Once we got here so did laundry,  made beds, put away clothes, ordered takeout dinner from the cafe here and took showers and that was our last couple of days and this is our last night in Texas, we will make our way up to Albuquerque for our appt staying in a KOA on Rte 66...that’s all for now.

Picnic spot on the border