Big Bend (NP # 7) Final Day March 29, 2013

We were up early this morning and on the road by 8.

The Brekkens headed west and we headed back into the park and out through the northern entrance, Persimmon Gap.  They were so fun to travel with and really made the trip so much more enjoyable for all.



Fun pic of the Brekken family since I don't think Dee and Rolf ever made it into a blog pic!

On our way out of the park, it was so strange because all of the landscape/vegetation is very dessert but there were tons of blue bonnets blooming along the edges of the road.

We stopped in Fort Stockton for lunch at Dairy Queen.  Then we drove up through Monahans, got gas just east of Midland and drove all the way in.  The kids were as usual, very good.  They watched movie after movie on the way back - Wreck-it Ralph, Paranorman, Open Range 3, etc. 

Grant, clearly a future Hollywood director, made the attached, potentially award-winning documentary.


We arrived back in Dallas at 6:30 and picked up Subway for the kids and Taco Bell for Nick and me.  Nick drove the entire way back!

It was a fabulous trip!