Terlingua home tour

[SHANEA]

Marathon News Leader

Terlingua home tour this month

TERLINGUA – The 77th Annual Terlingua Preservation Foundation Home Tour is scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 27.

The focus of the tours has been to showcase homes that are of energy-efficient alternative construction.

Robert and Liz Hill have lived in the Terlingua area six months annually for many years.

Although they originally planned to build of straw bale, conditions changed and their home was constructed of stucco-covered frame.

Recent Terlingua dwellers are Jimmy and Barbara Taylor who have long been involved with the CASI Chili Cook-off.

Jimmy Taylor is a builder and has employed many ideas and features into their home, located a few miles from Terlingua Ghost Town.

The home of Jim Ezell and his large shop are included.  Taylor also created this structure in a very small space.

Jim has been the chief official for CASI and has fallen in love with the Big Bend.

The most unique structure on the tour is a Pacific “yurt,” the home of Ceil Drucker and Bob Sutherland.

It was built by a local river guide several years ago and is in the same design as the original Himalayan yurts but of space-age material.

Many desert plants surround the home and the deck with hot tub.

Other homes are being added, which may include a straw bale home that is under construction.

The home is built into a clay hill and is protected by rock walls.

Another probability is an off- grid home with unusual methods of trapping and moving the hot desert air.

The tours will begin at 12 noon and 3 p.m. at the porch at Terlingua Ghost Town. Tickets are $20.

The Terlingua Preservation Foundation is a 501(C)(3) tax-exempt organization and all proceeds go toward furthering the mission of education on the culture of the Terlingua Mining District.

Reservations may be made by calling La Posada Milagro at 432/371-3044.

Transportation will be donated by Desert Sports, Far Flung Outdoor Center and Big Bend River Tours, although some may be asked to caravan in personal vehicles.

[SHANEA]

This was today.     Maybe we will get a first hand report from one of our Terlingua residents.

Terlingua homes featured

[Voni]

Because you all should have been there:

http://s14.photobucket.com/albums/a326/VoniGlaves/2008%20Terlingua%20Home%20Tour/?albumview=slideshow

or

http://tinyurl.com/yvhsgm

Voni
  sMiling

[SHANEA]

This was today.     Maybe we will get a first hand report from one of our Terlingua residents.

Ah, you came through Voni!  I was hoping you would give us a first hand report...   

[Voni]

I'm always amazed to see how many answers there are to the questions of living "off the grid".

My favorite was the straw bale house.  Can't wait to see it finished.

The rock work was amazing!

What a view!

Voni
  sMiling

[homerboy2u]

The pictures were awsome Voni...I specially liked the rock stairs and that round " coliseum like "  rock shrine with the blue bottles.

  You guys over there, sure do make the best of the materials you have around.

 I was going to ask another thing, but I don't want to be slapped again in the hand by Jr. Ranger......