Jozsef's Travel Blog

We had an unbelievable river trip with my older son yesterday (7/3/2020), check out my other blog post here , so for our next day (7/4/2020) we picked Mesa De Anguila to hike. To give you a teaser, we ended up taking a route that I have not read anyone taken before and we were rewarded with an absolute thrilling 360 view from the top of the Mesa. Here is how it went down... There are many valuable posts about this hike on TripAdvisor and AllTrails, plenty of info about the different options, but none described what we were about to see. We stayed at the El Dorado Hotel in Terlingua Ghost Town, so it was an easy drive in the morning to the trailhead on the outskirts of Lajitas. However, none of the descriptions pointed out the exact location of the parking lot, so of course we missed on our first attempt. We had a local resident help us find it, but we didn't expect an empty lot capable of holding 500+ cars. You can see on these pictures where exactly the parking area is. Or you can

I am a big fan of Big Bend. We have first visited it in 1998 and many times since then. We have kayaked through Colorado Canyon, Santa Elena Canyon and Mariscal Canyon two decades ago before we had our children. My older son gave me a father's day gift to spend the weekend with me in Big Bend. We decided to paddle the Colorado Canyon on our first day, hike the Mesa De Anguila the next day and then head home the same evening. We have our own sit on top hardshell kayaks, two of them fit on top our SUV and we threw in our two MTBs to provide our own transportation back to our car. We stayed in the El Dorado Hotel in Ghost Town Terlingua a two star little motel. It was surprisingly quiet even on the 4th of July weekend, so we got our well needed rest. Here are a couple of pics about and from the hotel: This was our plan for 23 miles of paddling: Put in: Arenosa Campground Take out: Lajitas River Access The most important thing was water levels, so I paid close attention to the USGS me