Adventures in and Around Fort Worth

(One of my favorite trips from Fort Worth) M onahans Sand Hills . Balmoreah's Natural Spring . Davis Mountains . McDonald Observatory . Historic working cattle ranches. State Parks . We pass all of this on our way into our Trinitarian food and fun Mecca: Fort Davis, Alpine and Marfa. Due to my passion for this raw and simple part of Texas I will write in parts so you don’t fall asleep on your computer screen. I could keep an entire blog just about West Texas. PART I: The Drive Out There T he speed limit is 80 m.p.h. and the sky is as vast as the vaqueros’ vocations that have worked this land for more than 150 years. A smile always crosses my face as I leave the complications of society and the city life behind me. The drive from the Midland/Odessa airport to our destination is roughly 150 miles west and rich with undulating landscape, history and even bigger skies. I don’t know what it is about the desert, but the drive from Odessa to our Fort Davis/Marfa/Alpine destination ha...