abandoned agricultural village. People lived in
Terlinghua Abajo from the late 1800's until the early
1930's. Mostly Mexicans who had lived in other areas
of Northern Mexico. Pretty much subsistence farming.
The guide has interviewed people who lived there.
There are some broken down adobe structures,
foundations, a cemetary, and whats left of a complex
irrigation system. What is particularly interesting
is that the population of this village was about 80%
of the people who lived in the western Big Bend area
but there is almost no documentation or history. The
history of this area, as of most others in the US has
been written by Europeans.
Left the park and drove through Terlinghua/Study
Butte: barren land, very dusty. Motels, restaurants
and tour guide businesses that cater to people coming
and going from Big Bend. Everything looks windblown
and out of business, except they're not. But there is
almost no pavement other than the roads. Parking
lots, driveways, side streets are all just sand. And
it was very, very hot.
Drove about 80 miles in a might wind to Alpine, TX, a
town about the size of Rutland but with a good size
university. I'm staying in an RV park behind a
Quickmart. But cheap and it's got great showers and
wifi.
My camera has died so I won't have any more pics until
I can get another.
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