#5 Davis Mountains State Park

Over the past four days we've called Davis Mountains State Park in southwest Texas home. Hundreds of miles of beautiful, mountainous riding and an excellent campground to boot. A great skyline drive in the park drew us the first day.

We then enjoyed the town of Fort Davis with its history and charm. 

Fort Davis National Historical Park

We visited Big Bend Natl Park and of course David had to take any road that was signed as 4WD/High Clearance. Besides this crazy 12-mile off road trek, the most exciting part of the journey was our first Border Patrol checkpoint. Our pups didn't take kindly to bein checked out by a German Shepherd BP worker.

Big Ben National Park - just too big to get good photos of

The scooter rides around Alpine, Marfa, the McDonald Observatory and Fort Davis have been my favorite. 

We picked up some riding buddies one day. While cruising along in the middle of nowhere - not long after I took this shot - a misguided bee collided with my face at about 60mph and got stuck under my sunglasses. For the past couple of days I've had what appears to be a shiner. The swelling is finally going down; sure glad I'm not allergic though. Thus no pics of Tammy for a couple of days. ;-)

While we contemplated staying here another day - there is that much to do. - we need to move on. Tomorrow we cross the state line into New Mexico.

Views from lookout above Davis Mountain

State Park

Flora around Davis Mountains

State Park Trail

Fort Davis National Historic Site - Officer Quarters

Me trying to be artistic