Wild Burros, Ruidosa, Texas

On my way out of Chinati Hot Springs, I took time to meet the neighbors.

Looking Out the Kitchen Window, Chinati Hot Springs, Ruidosa, Texas

White mirror of knife slices forward, down. Onion crunch — stop. The Silence.

Chinati Hot Springs Road, Ruidosa, Texas

I’ve been there, Friend, the End of the Road, where your old bones will be renewed, your aching muscles soothed. Immerse and be reborn!

Teepee Picnic Area, Madera Canyon, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Texas

Kitschy "teepee" picnic shades south of Madera Canyon because ... Amerika! The Apaches and Jumanos native to this area didn't use teepees, by the way ...

Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park, Texas

Chisos, they give many theories for your name, but I believe "enchantment" must be true, even with the connotation, "bewitchment."

Pecos River Crossing, US 90, between Comstock and Langtry, Texas

I leave the crowded, humid world of prosaic Texas in my exhaust for the wider, drier Texas of poetic imagination.

Catarina Hotel (1926), Catarina, Texas

The South Texas fracking boom has breathed new life into famed "ghost town," Catarina. New owners have reopened the old Catarina Hotel as Palm Suite and Inn.