Today, Tori wanted to go exploring again, so Tony and she decided to head over to Davis Mountains State Park, and also Ft. Davis Historical Site. I stayed back at the RV, in anticipation of 4 more rigs showing up today.
They went to eat lunch at the Indian Lodge there at the State Park, and had a nice meal. They did some exploring, including hiking up to the overlook that lets you see the town of Ft. Davis. Supposedly, you can hike down to the Historical Site, but it's quite a ways.
Tony said there was a disabled man there that could not get to see everything, but Tori helped him out, taking pictures with the man's iPad for him.
After their tour of the State Park, they went back down to the Fort Davis Historic Site. Some other Heartlanders happened to be going in at the same time with a National Park Pass, and included Tony and Tori in his "group" to get in for free.
Ft. Davis Historic Site
Tony and Tori at Ft. Davis Historic Site
I worked on some more paperwork for the Rally, and greeted folks as they came in, taking their rally bags to them. I also went to the office to check on a few things.
More Heartlanders coming in!
About 4:30, Tony and Tori returned to the park, Hungry! So we gathered up and headed over to Subway for a quick meal, and a stop in to the Grocery store to get needed rally items.
We headed back to the RV park and Tony was wiped out, so he stayed home. At 7:15PM, Tori and I headed to the front of the park to lead the rally attendees to go see the Marfa Lights, at the Marfa Lights viewing station. We had a caravan of about 7 trucks follow us out there.
On the way there, we passed a herd of some kind of sheep, with curled horns on the shoulder of the highway. At first I thought they were deer. They did not look very wild, and we passed so quickly it was hard to tell what they were.
Once we arrived at the viewing station, we set up chairs in two groups, hoping to see something! Mostly there was a lot of skepticism, but overall folks enjoyed hanging out and "thinking" they might be seeing something.
A beautiful sunset as we waited for the Marfa Lights.
Some Heartlanders on the upper level, some on the ground.
There are tiny lights waaaayy out there
We did see lights, but they looked suspiciously like car lights to many of us.
About 9:45PM we decided to call it a night. We and many others packed up and headed home. It was a good time, and now we can say "Yes!" When they ask if we went to the Marfa Lights.
It was a fun day!
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