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.