Where in the world is Marfa?

  

Tuesday April 13, A look at the border “Wall”..more like a fence...lots of lights...lots of Border Patrol.  Just beyond the fence is Mexico.

La Equis....literal translation. ..”The X”. This landmark At their fairgrounds in Mexico and they just spent 1/2 million dollars to give its shine back.  202 feet tall!

Marfa is about 80 miles outside of El Paso.  Established in 1880 as a railroad water stop.  It means Martha in Russian.  Today it is an artsy hippie kinda place.  Some beautiful buildings and a golf course.  

kinda like graffiti ...but art...don’t get me started.

Of course they have a Post Office, keep those retirement checks coming.

Veterans are honored here.

Catholic Church

Episcopal 

City Hall

..and what interested us most...”Dairy Queen” great dipped cones.  

 

Marfa is also famous for their night lights.  It is very dark at night and you can see scads of stars.  On occasion you will see the mystery lights. This is a viewing area that makes for fun fotos!

Camping is also allowed, that’s us behind the Big Dogs!  The folks from Dairy Queen that told us about this place.

The Marfa Lights, mysterious glowing orbs that appear in the desert outside the West Texas town of Marfa, have mystified people for generations.

According to eyewitnesses, the Marfa Lights appear to be roughly the size of basketballs and are varyingly described as white, blue, yellow, red or other colors.

There seems to be no way to predict when the lights will appear; they're seen in various weather conditions, but only a dozen or so nights a year. And nobody knows for sure what they are — or if they really even exist at all. WE DID NOT SEE THE LIGHTS, maybe because we were there during the day.  We didn’t get to see the Northern lights when we were in Alaska either. 😥

The Native Americans of the area thought the Marfa Lights were fallen stars, the Houston Chronicle reports.

The first mention of the lights comes from 1883, when cowhand Robert Reed Ellison claimed to have seen flickering lights one evening while driving a herd of cattle near Mitchell Flat. He assumed the lights were from Apache campfires.

Ellison was told by area settlers that they often saw the lights, too, but upon investigation, they found no ashes or other evidence of a campfire, according to the Texas State Historical Association.

During World War II, pilots from nearby Midland Army Air Field tried to locate the source of the mysterious lights, but were unable to discover anything.

Our digs for tonight; Showers, electricity, fresh water and a good nights sleep!