This is the Jeff Davis County Courthouse, with a rainstorm in the background, taken on New Year's Eve 2009. Our hotel was less than a block from here.
This is a view on HWY 67 going towards Shafter, out of Marfa. Gives you a great idea of how vast the land is, how great the view.
The cemetery in Shafter, Texas. Very unique in every way; the ground is hard and sandy, so each grave is covered in stones. Some graves are old, some were very new. This was taken through sunglasses to filter out some of the light; the fog in the background was deceptive.
The Rio Grande, from the American side in Big Bend Ranch State Park, just off El Camino Del Rio (the River Road, FM 170 out of Presidio). 
Randy on the Lost Mine Trail in the Chisos Basin in Big Bend National Park.
The view from the Lost Mine Trail.
The javelina, posing for Michele on the side of the road in the Chisos Basin.
Michele at Horsehead Crossing. That's the Pecos right behind me - I think that, if you squint, you can see the ghosts of tens of thousands of Longhorns that Goodnight and Loving and their successors drove over this road. And it's such lonely desert country - if you close your eyes and listen, you might even hear their echo, over 150 years after the fact.
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