“Marfa”

El Cosmico – Marfa, TX

Posted on May 1, 2014

After 7 hours of driving from Austin we arrived at El Cosmico Like I said in a previous post I have wanted to go somewhere different and completely unconventional. While googling, I came across this location.  It is an 18 acre campground that has trailers, safari tents and teepees and it was absolutely magical! That is literally the only way I can describe it. The weather was perfect though it did get a little chilly at night.  Here is a visual of theRead More

Prada Marfa

Posted on April 21, 2014

I couldn’t leave Marfa without visiting Prada Marfa.   It is a permanent installed sculpture by the artists Elmgreen and Dragset and is located about 35 miles outside of Marfa in the small town of Valentine, TX.  The installation was inaugurated on October 1, 2005.  It cost $80,000 for development and was never intended to be repaired so it could slowly degrade naturally.  Since then, it was vandalized twice – three days after completion and again the middle of March.  I so happened to be visitingRead More

Road trippin’ to Marfa, TX

Posted on April 16, 2014

Hola!   Check out a couple of photos my cousin Tamara took during our fun seven hour road trip from Austin to Marfa.  There were so many good pics, it was so hard to narrow it down.  Another humongous thanks to her for dealing with me pulling over at least every hour for a photo op.   More snapshots to come – Stay tuned! We took a pic of the directions because we had ZERO phone service (Thank God we did).