{"id":4223,"date":"2015-11-21T19:13:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T01:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/?p=4223"},"modified":"2016-02-07T13:21:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T19:21:08","slug":"a-big-bend-thanksgiving-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/21\/a-big-bend-thanksgiving-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"A Big Bend Thanksgiving – Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I talked Gina into going to Big Bend National Park in 1996 and it was so hot and miserable it took 14 years to convince her to return. Now I can’t keep her away from the place. We returned for the third time since that ill-fated mid-90’s trip over the week of Thanksgiving. After the 10-day trip we declared it our best vacation of all-time. (When I say “we” I mean Gina and me. Abby thinks our trip earlier this year to Universal Studios in Orlando has been the best vacation.) We even convinced Nana and Gramps to tag along with us.<\/p>\n

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I rented a fisheye lens for the trip and I thought it would be funny to break it in with a fish-face portrait. I was impressed with how Abby is really selling it.<\/p>\n

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We stopped off in Marathon, Texas, for lunch at a classic roadside diner-type establishment.<\/p>\n

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A couple of actual working cowboys came in and sat at the next table. They ordered iced coffee.<\/p>\n

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We booked three nights in the Chisos Mountain Lodge inside the park. The rest of the trip would be spent in a couple other places outside the park.<\/p>\n

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The building in which our room was located was built in the early 40s and it is clearly showing its age, but it’s all about location, right? We were right in the heart of the action and the surroundings were very peaceful. We hardly saw any of the other people staying all around us.<\/p>\n

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That evening we walked to supper at the lodge restaurant with a nearly full moon rising over the mighty 7,500 foot Casa Grande.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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