257 miles – Ozona, Ft. Stockton, Alpine, Terlingua
Goats at Alpine gas station
Day 2 Route
Day 2 of our Big Bend National Park motorcycle ride. When we got up the temperature was 39 degrees but a bright sun shiny day. We had planned to leave by 8:00 but because it was so cold we waited and left around 9:00. My cousin stopped by to visit a while since we hadn’t left yet. Once on the road it began to warm up quickly. We rode from Ozona to Ft. Stockton, gassed up, had lunch at a Dairy Queen, then rode to Alpine gassed up and then rode on to Terlingua and stayed at the Mission Lodge for the next two nights. It was great riding in the sunshine and the scenery was great. There isn’t much in Terlingua but the scenery there was spectacular. The café and store across the highway was convenient so we ate all our meals there… The food wasn’t bad there either.
Mission Lodge in Terlingua where we stayed…
Looking northeast from Mission Lodge
Sunset in Terlingua
Links to the other days of our ride…
Day 1 – 259 miles – Georgetown, Fredericksburg, Ozona
Day 3 – 187 Miles – Terlingua, Santa Elena Canyon, Chisos Basin, Boquillas Canyon, Terlingua (all in Big Bend)
Day 4 – 182 miles – Terlingua, Presidio, Marfa, Alpine
Day 5 – 188 miles – Alpine, Ft Davis, loop 166, Ft Stockton
Day 6 – 165 miles – Ft Stockton, Big Lake, San Angelo
Day 7 – 195 Miles – San Angelo, Llano, Georgetown
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