La Linda

We found a campground near Big Bend National Park called Stillwell Store and RV Park on Texas ranch road 2627. Will post another blog about the RV Park in a day or two as it is an interesting place.

In looking at the map we noticed that the road ran south from our campsite to the Rio Grande River which is the border with Mexico so we decided to take a trip down and have a look.

The entire way down is through the Black Gap Wildlife Park which is very rugged and isolated. The road is just wonderful, very well maintained which we found to be interesting when we found that the road ended at a bridge that was totally blocked.



The bridge while older is a real nice one that crossed the Rio Grande River and was used by people to mingle on the border. Things have changed and barriers have been placed on the bridge as you can see in the pictures.





The river is wide and runs with some force through here but I doubt that it would inhibit a determined person from crossing. More of a deterent is the fact that there is nothing for a couple of hundred miles north except rough country that you would not want to walk through.




Here is a nice picture with Barbara that really shows the bridge. The top photo is a telephoto shot of a church that is sitting in the middle of nowhere accross the river in Mexico.