Big Bend National Park, TX

The drive to Big Bend was the more isolated than smiling faces at Harrah's. Everything was dusty, but the road off the I-10 had a bunch of flood gauges for the rainy season. On the same road we saw a javalina (like a small boar) and tried to chase it down, but it was way faster than both of us. We saw what we think was a jackrabbit, too. It's so hot during the day there, but in the night it dips down to the 20s. Wild wild wild. We arrived to this little store outside of the national park, and it was the hub of activity in this desolated little space. There was a group doing mammology research (the leader of which Todd is talking to in the picture). Todd has talked to so many random people in strange contexts--but the crazy thing is that he does it even quicker than me!