Looking Around the Big Bend

Location	Texas: Big Bend
Type	Great Base Lodging
Duration	Not less than two nights
Difficulty	Moderate to strenuous, depending on trail choice and season
Distance	Got Milk?
Highlights	Hikes, Fossils, Petroglyphs, Sun

We arrived at the Chisos Mountain Lodge with not much of an itinerary except to walk together in the heat and sun, to explore as much of the vast park as we could and be back on our way home in a week.  The last time I lived with my dad for more than three or four days was decades ago; the last time I spent more than a few hours entirely alone with him was never.  I didn’t know what we would talk about for all that time, but I knew it would include a thousand unanswerable questions posed by him about the nature of truth, the identity of God, the possibility of a vast right wing conspiracy, and the meaning of life.  If you know my dad, you understand.