The City of Rocks park is something to see. I walked around winding myself through the maze of alleys between the boulders, with something to see around every corner. Some of the boulders stand alone, imposing in their own right arranged like buildings defining a street; others balancing unconvincingly on top of each other, ready to roll down and crush you at any...
This day was book ended by two wonderful places to stay, with the plains of Texas in the middle. The 7am sunrise in Sonora Caves, Texas is spectacular, and the roosters began marketing that fact promptly at 4:30 in the morning, making sure that the two tourists that were there, were well aware of the message. They were not wrong. A sliver at the horizon in the mostly...