We left Houston and humid east Texas air the same night he arrived. Our aim was to make it to Big Bend on the west side within a few days, but the empty roads and continues hours of catching up kept us cruising all the way to the park in one stretch.
By the time we finally made it to a camp and was set up it was more the 24 hrs since we'd left the city behind and 36 hrs since I woke. Deliriously we checked out the surroundings and agreed to move on the following day as the park, this time of year, is rather inaccessible to longer hikes due to high temperatures and lack of water.
Before leaving the next morning we hiked into a canyon, swam crossing the Rio Grand to the opposite side - into Mexico.
A week has passed and we've made it New Mexico. Revisiting some places I passed a few weeks ago, spending another day underground in the lava caves and finding tracks where only a 4x4's can go.
It's been allot of driving. Tomorrow we set out on a 4 day hike in the mountains surrounding Taos in northern New Mexico.
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