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Author Topic: Midland - Chisos Basin Drive Time?  (Read 3567 times)
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« Reply #15 on: January 29, 2007, 06:52:41 pm »

Snapped this in Google Earth just West of FM 1053:


...I think I'll take FM 1053 to Ft. Stockton on my next trip...
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« Reply #16 on: April 30, 2008, 10:57:07 am »

I know this is an ancient thread, but just wanted to note that I also missed the turn heading south out of Ft Stockton towards Marathon back in Feb when I made my first visit to BIBE.  Very poorly signed from either direction... you'd think they would have fixed that by now.
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« Reply #17 on: April 30, 2008, 11:12:57 am »

I know this is an ancient thread, but just wanted to note that I also missed the turn heading south out of Ft Stockton towards Marathon back in Feb when I made my first visit to BIBE.  Very poorly signed from either direction... you'd think they would have fixed that by now.
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« Reply #18 on: April 30, 2008, 11:23:48 am »

Most of Fort Stockton's southern roads funnel into 385 eventually, so I've always thought of "The Turn" as being overrated. Most of the time, I take Colpitts Blvd, which deadends into 194 right about the point where 385 turns off to the south.
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