A Tour of Alpine

Tuesday, March 14th, 2017

Today, we all got up about 8:30-9am, and ate breakfast, got dressed. It was chilly that night for Tori, sleeping on our fold-out couch in the living room, but she said she slept pretty solid all night.

We asked Tori to help us prepare the rally bags for the attendees. We pulled all the stuff from the rig, and set up an assembly line in the rally hall. It took a while, but we got it done! We made 25 bags up.

After we were done, we headed into Alpine to do some looking around. We drove around the main downtown part of Alpine, then went to eat at Magoo's.

They were out of Chicken, so I had Green Chilie CHEESE enchiladas instead. Tony had the Green Chile Chicken Fried Steak, and Tori had regular enchiladas. The meal was very good!

We then headed to downtown to walk around and go in some of the shops.

I didn't take many pics, but here are a few.

Three nesting ceramic bowls that combined, look like a cactus!

One of the wonderful murals in the area.

The historic Holland Hotel

Inside the Holland Hotel, a strong spanish-influenced architecture.

A tumbleweed light inside Plaine Coffee -- next door to Tumbleweed Laundry.

After walking around and looking in shops, we decided it was getting a little warm in the afternoon, so we stopped and had ice cream at Plaine Coffee, and sat outside next to Cow Dog, the food truck made out an old Winnebago.

photo of Plaine Coffee's patio grabbed from website

Tori enjoying ice cream

After that, we headed back to the rig.

More folks had arrived, so we took them their rally bags. At one rig, the wind caught their screen door at hit poor Tony in the face! Luckily he didn't see stars or anything, but he did have a little headache later on. No visible damage to his face, thank goodness.

For dinner, we decided to have hot dogs, cooked on the stove, because it was easy.

After dinner, we walked around and visited some more. The stars were very bright out here, as there was not too much light pollution. We watched a zodiacal light phenomenon appear in the western sky. Read about it, here.

Heartland friend Malcolm took this time-lapse picture.

It was nearing 10pm and getting colder, so we headed back to the rig. A fun day!