Today Travis, Kevin, Jordan, and I drove 575 miles to to Big Bend National Park. We made excellent time despite the unanticipated 30 minute gas stop in Marathon. What can you do when the pump maxs out at 2 gallons per minute? It was only a minor setback during a quick 8 hour drive to the park.

Kevin, Doug, James, and I headed out to Guadalupe Mountains for a week of backpacking during Spring Break in 2006. We climbed the highest point in Texas (Guadalupe Peak, elevation 8,749), and we can now consider ourselves ‘True Texans’.