We are heading westwards across the state to the Mexican border. The border between America and Mexico is the Rio Grand River in Texas. The area we are heading for is a national park in a bend of the river. The park is nearly a million square acres or almost as big as Norfolk – quite large so it is called Big Bend! It is the only national park in Texas, the other parks have been run by the state. The drive is nearly 5oo miles long so we stop a night in the desert in a small town called Marathon. The town started as a fort to stop Apache Indians raiding farms.
The railway from California to the East coast goes through the town, just in front of our cabin. The trains are over half a mile long and have to whistle as they go over the crossing in the town. There were free ear plugs in the cabin as the trains run all night! Marathon is 4400 feet high but our stop in Big Bend is 5600 feet, higher than the highest mountain in Britain!
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