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big bend state park
date
april 18-19, 2023
location
texas
In Big Bend State Park, we dunk our butts in the Rio Grande, the water not deep enough for a full submersion. Javelinas, wild piggy animals, bask on the shore of the river opposite us on a beach in Mexico 20 feet away. It’s peaceful, serene, the mountains rising up dramatically against the setting sun. We’re warned by a park ranger that the camp spot we booked will take 2 hours to drive to, on unpaved, rocky dirt roads. We scoff in the car, seeing the 20 miles distance on our GPS, then soon learn, “oh shit, she’s right,” and pull off at a fork in the road (not our campsite) to sleep for two nights. No one drives past us. No one cares that we didn’t heed the warning of the ranger in this desolate stretch of land.