Fort Cinco Cieto Terra Incognito Terlingua Texas off grid hide out Big Bend Country
while the holiday season has come and gone and its time to get to work. I First got the mead and letchiga (sp?) started to ferment, finished the rock stairs to the guest house, still the first guest, and the walls to the main house. would like to post more but I am getting run out of the cafe in midland were i am and the hotel does not have a connection like they say. the tecno gods are keeping me away..back again the next day to add comments on the pics. I like the one were squirt is riding on the back of josie hunting the roads for what ever breaths now that Kriss is gone and she has no one to scratch up. Then there's Hermans peak, the name sake of my neighborhood. A pic of Kriss doing the dishes, got to pay for room and board out at the salvage yard ranch...lol... some more shots of the great sun sets which blows away anything you got on tv... man i for got how bad that tv shit is, while sitting in the hotel room flipping thru the channels brain dead last night. Then there is the chimney pics from the wash from latter falls which is on the way down to terlingua creek. It is a great hike, about 4 to 5 miles to a great pool of water, cant wait for some warmer days to dive in for a swim, just hobo bathing in it now. Kriss and I mad the hike while she was here and i tried to start a fire with the bow drill but was unsuccessful, so the magnesium block did the trick. I did get a coal later that night when greg showed up and her throw me a couple of pointers. "Fire man" he calls me now.




















News Flash : Sonic Youth free September 6, 2007 at the Chinati Foundation, a contemporary art museum in Marfa, Texas, based upon the ideas of its founder, Donald Judd.
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Marfa, Texas
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Just Watch out for the Empire State Troopers....they might run you over,
also a very sonic band from NY. But be there like wasted
crawfish had a tuff ride out to there boil, only 1/3 made it, but they tasted great. The folks at the pourch were upset that the boil party was not going on, until we showed up with the left overs from the morning. Even cold mud bugs taste good with a view. The folks from New Orlans said I did them right, nice and hot. While Mohawk and Nelson sleeped most of the time, I was able to make improvements to the bath house/corral and to add a compost area and power station which had some problems with the solar panel.
this has been the longest stint since starting to go to the bend that i have been away. hope to make it for another super bowl party. i have the new addition of a trickle charge solar panal system that i have put together to get out there. meanwhile i have enjoyed the galveston lone star bike ralley. included in this post i s a photo of the black widow which greeted us upon our last vist and a frog which took releif from the heat in the doags water bowl and the new ranch cooking table.
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Not only did the first annual Labor Day Salvage Yard Ranch party go off with out a hitch, so did John’s truck and popup. He found it out on the road after dragging the kids out at 2 am and walking along with flashlights and a handy piece of rebar holding it in place. The crocodile hunter passed but we had his replacement, Steve’s son Kipling, who found anything alive in his path. We saw a horny toad lizard, a stick bug, lots of scorpions, a small garden snake, a coyote killing a rattle snake, millipedes, caterpillars with spike tales (not sure of their name), and a couple of jack rabbits who Squirt tried to chase but were long gone before she even got a start. Shots rang out all day, till our ears bled….bang, bang…bang. Then there was the trip out to the natural spring at the base of Agua Fria, just 6 miles as the crow flies from the Yard. As we swam we wondered how many dried out cowboys swam the same spot only to look up on the ridge to see a war party of apaches.
The shower barn still stood and the metal roof, gutter and water tank are all in place for next visit. Poor neighbor Larry lost his camper down to the valley, buy a strong wind which blew through. The rain had been plenty and the plants were all in bloom and green.
view of tanaha from another visit...then after the flash.
the blue bath house was destoryed durning construction by the hail storm which blew through...twice, but what a sight it was.
Ladder falls flashed and left us with a freshly filled tanaha. the second bath house was started and still stood when we left.