We went down to Big Bend a week ago, but TNTTT hasn't been stable enough to post about it. Still can't seem to add to the thread I started in March, so let's see if this new thread works.
We started with a one night stop at Bottomless Lakes State Park NM, near Roswell. Much nicer with the better weather:
Next stop was for one night back to Davis Mountains State Park TX
Still great, wonderful weather. Finally on to Big Bend! First stop was lunch at the Fossil Exhibit
That last one wasn't a fossil, but he was crowen' about how he wanted me to take his picture! Raven' about just finishing modeling school (or something)
It did seem pretty warm at Big Bend.
Did I mention our campsite in Rio Grand Village didn't have electricity? Hence no AC. When we heard the forecast temperature, we looked into getting a space at the commercial site, or up the mountain at Chisos Basin, but no dice. (Almost as if the other visitors also wanted to escape the heat!) However, when we got there, we found it wasn't too unbearable. We'd do it again! And the particular campsite was great, with plenty of privacy due to the bushes and trees. It had a unique L shape with a spot for tenters.
We were in a non-generator spot, but we were close enough to the generator spots that we did hear them clearly. Oh well. Our host mentioned the truck counts as a generator, so folks aren't allowed to run them in camp just to use their AC. If necessary, he suggested taking a drive to see the park at night.
I'm thinking some sort of 12 vdc swamp cooler for future trips to dry hot places may make an interesting project some day. We did run our roof fan on high all night, which took about 10% of the battery. Even with the trees, the solar panel, left on top of the tear all day, charged us back to 100% by evening.
OK, this posting works, but I can't seem to add a new post to this thread! (Or the last one.)
To be continued...?
Tom