BBER 2012 - Day 3 - Uvalde to Marathon TX

This day was the absolute highlight of the trip, because we made it to Seminole Canyon State park. This park is open only via guided tour, and offers the richest example of cave paintings on the continent. It's a hassle to arrange your schedule to fit the park schedule, but well worth it. It was more interesting to me than other things I've been lucky to see such as the Etruscan sites in Tuscany.

We got up early in Uvalde, had a quick breakfast stop in Del Rio on the way to the park, which was just beyond Comstock.

At breakfast in Del Rio, we were surrounded by folks speaking Spanish at their tables. I took the chance to engage a local man with my newly perfected Car Tape Spanish. I was really proud of my pronunciation and mastery of the language... that is until he answered me back in perfect unaccented English. Oh well, so much for the hours of extra study....

Past Seminole Canyon, we made a stop at Langtry site of Judge Roy Bean "The Law West of the Pecos", but being Easter Sunday it was closed. We motored on and ended up in Sanderson for lunch at a truck stop. The Sanderson economy has seen better days.

Marathon was our final destination, at the famous Gage Hotel. It was upscale, with nice grounds, nice rooms, nice pool, and a great restaurant and bar. The Gage has pretty much bought up all the town of Marathon, and has alot of properties beyond just the hotel itself. Warning, the Brush Fire cocktail has fresh jalapenos and lives up to it's name.