Yes Terlingua Ranch has a pool - an amenity that my wife immediately zeroed in on. I for one could care less, as my job involves being in the water all the time. I like being out in the back country roughing it. However, she is only good for so many days of that before she HAS to have a real shower.
I just got back from Big Bend and all the surrounding area. I was out there for a week, mostly roaming the back country trails, drove Black Gap etc in my Land Cruiser and we had a great time. We heard a mountain lion, saw it's fresh poop etc, and my wife was up all night peeping out the window of the tent. What a riot.... I slept good and didn't bother with it.
I am still amazed at the amount of deadbeats that just kind of crash in the Terlingua area. We drove up into some of the areas which were old, falling down houses probably built 100 years ago and bums were living in them etc. Saw one with a big solar panel (I was wondering if it was stolen from the highway dept off the side of the road).
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To clarify-- the Longhorn Motel has a pool also--it is on the west side of 118, south of the main Terlingua Ranch road.
Also, you have definitely misspoke calling people living in the falling down houses and less in the Terlingua area -- bums and deadbeats.
Ever hear of Ted Kacznski? His brother david-- the good son-- every bit as bright --lived in Terlngua at the same time that Ted lived in Montana. He dug a hole and put a tarp over it and called it home--his only means of transportation was a bicycle. He was not a deadbeat nor a bum.
There are probably more Phds to be found in the Terlingua Ranch area working on the great american novel and such than you can imagine.
Number one all of us are guaranteed a phone connection by a rural grant so everyone can get on a computer and work from "home" even if home is a hovel.
And DSL has now come to some of us also as of three years ago--it only cost $10 to get DSL and phone line installed no matter how long it takes or how remote your tract.
AND I really resent the fact that you suggested the person stole the solar panel--his income might exceed yours by 10 fold--you never know.
There are many retired people from the academic and life of wealth here that have it sitting in a bank paying their bills while the live off next to nothing out here.
Set a spell and talk to people-you just might learn something and come away with new respect for that "bum" who might just own a square block in Houston that he is getting lease money from.
Another lady I know-- has no conveniences at all and lives in an old tiny trailer with her abudance of animals-- certainly looks like someone you would call a bum--but alas,,,, she owns over 100 acres, two houses in Marfa, an airplane and the list goes on.
We CHOOSE to live this way-- not because we are bums but because we like this simple life.
Judge not.
Kathleen
