Museum, Cow Dogs, Brews and Pizza

Saturday, June 25th, 2016

Today we got up fairly early, and Tony went and got us donuts. They were very good! A definite thumbs up for rally needs. 

After we were dressed, we headed over to the park office to discuss some rally business with the park staff. We have a really great feeling about this park! 

Afterward, we headed to the Museum of the Big Bend, located on Sul Ross University campus. We had located the museum yesterday in our drive around town. 

The museum has a lot of informational panels, artifacts and displays depicting the story of Big Bend, from prehistoric times to recent times. The Big Bend has quite a history, being occupied by Indians, Spanish, Mexicans, Texans, and ultimately becoming a US National Park. It was very interesting.

After the museum, we noticed a large area nearby full of horse trailers with mounted officers and law enforcement personnel all around. They were preparing for a funeral procession for famous Texas Ranger, Joaquin Jackson, a local resident. We saw a long line of law enforcement vehicles, lights flashing, on another street, about the time of the funeral.

We headed downtown for lunch to eat at a food truck establishment called Cow Dog. It is located in an old motor home, semi-permanently parked on a corner. They had tables and more seating inside the building they are parked next to, but all the ordering and cooking is done at the RV.

The Cow Dog RV between us.

I had a "hangover dog" and Tony had a "green chile dog". They were both very good, and we enjoyed sitting outside and watching the people and traffic go by. 

After lunch, we headed back to the rig for a bit, and rested. 

About 2:30 we headed over to Big Bend Brewing Company, to do their brewery tour and sampling. Unfortunately the tour was delayed almost an hour due to staffing issues, but we did enjoy the brew sampling. A note to anyone wanting to do this, the brewery is not air conditioned, and it does get warm in there! They have areas you can walk to outside, but without a good breeze it gets toasty.

Going to the brewery

On the tour

Canning the beer

After the tour, we headed home again for a while, both of us taking a snooze in our recliners! About 6 we headed out to go try another place to eat, Guzzi Up, an Italian food place located in a former gas station. The food was pretty good. We had cheesy garlic bread appetizer, and then a large pizza. The pizza could have had more meat on it, but it was tasty. They got busy and the service was a bit slow in the end. 

Pic from Yelp.

Our pizza

After dinner we went back to the rig, then went for a walk around the park. We decided we needed to spend another day to get more information for our rally, so we went to the office and asked to extend our stay another day.

After that we headed back to the rig, but stopped and visited briefly with some other Heartland Owners. One was not happy with his unit, but it sounded like his dealer had really treated him unfairly.

Once home again, we had some spotty showers in the area that were cooling off temps. We enjoyed being outside for a bit. 

We watched a little tv, I did some work, then we hit the hay. A busy day today!