This weekend we went to Marfa, TX for a little mini-vacation. Marfa is a town of about 2100 people in the middle-of-nowhere west Texas (about 6 hours west of San Antonio and 3 hours southeast of El Paso) that has a big art scene, a few celebrity vacation homes, and famous "mystery" lights that appear about 20 times a year that may or may not be UFOs (we didn't see any). The scenery around Marfa is beautiful, flat desert with low mountains and mesas. There are several art galleries and it also has it's own film festival. It seems weird for how small and remote it is. The scenery is awesome and we may have gone overboard on the pictures.
Scott flew in the right seat on the way there and back to get some good experience, since that is where he'll have to sit for his flight instructor ratings.
They were doing glider demo rides at Boerne when we left.
Scott workin' it in the right seat.
Heading out from Boerne.
A wind farm in west Texas.
We stopped in Ft. Stockton for fuel, and there was a very isolated thunderstorm just south of town. The pictures don't really do it justice...it was very dramatic with the huge sky and flat land.
Pouring rain just south of town, in one small area.
The area of rain is to the right, clear blue sky to the left.
Looking out from under the shadow of the storm.
We waited out the storm a little bit after getting fuel.
We landed in Alpine, TX and drove the half hour to Marfa. This is the Alpine airport.
Very pretty countryside!
For dinner in Marfa we ate at Pizza Foundation, which we're guessing is a pun on the art foundations that have exhibits there. Guess what the building used to be!
Downtown Marfa.
Sunset at the Marfa airport.
Artistic photo op as the sun was setting.
When we picked Bridget up at Camp Bow Wow she was sporting a hot pink bandanna and tearing around the room with her tongue hanging out. She seems to have had a good time as well!
Luckily we got the coolest one, which was painted up like the Coast Guard. We drove around Victoria a little bit since we had never been there in the daylight. There was a minor car accident (just a fender bender) that we came upon just short minutes after it happened, and as the fake Coast Guard Renee really felt it was our duty to stop and render aid. But Scott was driving and he said it was a minor accident and no one needed CPR, everyone was up and walking around, people were already on the phone, and we had already driven by in that ridiculous car three times assessing the situation and were beginning to make a spectacle of ourselves. So we kept going. It would have been kind of funny to pull up and start ordering people to get the vehicles moved out of the road, securing the scene, and acting all official but now we'll never know...
