April 20 Day 29 cycling Marfa to Van Horn, TX

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So many amazing county courthouses in TX and with 254 counties, can you say “admin bucks?!!”

Presidio County Courthouse in Marfa
Marfa is an art heavy small community
to which tourists flock. Here’s a mural.
And another

Our penultimate cycling day in Texas! Today was wide open, flat and fast the first half of the day, then we turned due north the second half to encounter the wind. 74.9 miles, 520’. Huge Marfa Basin is loaded with potash and is also part of the much larger, oil producing region of the Permian Basin.

Sunrise leaving Marfa
Roadside art….so much nostalgia in the Marfa area for the filming of “Giant”
with Elizabeth Taylor & Rock Hudson
more than six decades ago!!
Gorgeous E/NE tailwind all morning. Chilly start. Back to chipseal surface.
High desert (above 4000’ all day) still blooming
Border Patrol surveillance and vehicles
still present
Quite the spike Steven picked up in his rear tire!! Tubeless repair worked, and off we went.
I did help Steven a little!
Art installation near Valentine, TX! It’s a thing!
Picked up our new friend Richard from Maine who is traveling with his wife Alexandra before Richard hooks up with a group of cyclists with Parkinson’s on their way to the international conference in Phoenix.
Very large Pecan orchard and lots of irrigation as we approached Van Horn.

Quick change of clothes and a bite to eat in Van Horn then drove 1.5 hours into El Paso. Three nights here while Tom and I fly to Cabo (!) tomorrow for my nephew/Godson’s wedding. Yes, we promise to return on Wednesday night, Steven and Jody! Too bad, so sad (not!) that we missed cycling 125 miles into El Paso on and off Interstate 10!

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