We’ve finally made it to Texas, the last stop on our US roadtrip! We’re currently in Austin at the public library and I only have 10 minutes left to write a post.

Texas started off with a stop in Marfa. We were expecting a small boring little Texas town, but it turns out that Marfa, population only 2000, is somehow in on the artist scene. There are a few famous galleries in the city along with a super nice bookstore and a few cute restaurants. We visited a winery in Marfa where we tried six different Texas wines. The road to the winery was under construction so we were the only visitors on a Friday night, which means we got lots of information on the winery, industry, etc – very fun. The family also had two cute little Boston Terriers, so I was in heaven. After the winery we drove a few miles out of town to try to view the mysterious Marfa lights. I’ll provide a link later when I have more time, but the Marfa lights are basically little lights that appear on the horizon and dance around. No one knows what causes them. We hung out in our car for 20 minutes then gave up and went to bed – no lights for us!

After Marfa we drove South to Big Bend National Park where we spent 4 days. We managed to squeeze in a quick 2 day bike tour through the park…more on that later, I’m out of time!

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