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We left El Paso on the 11th August and made our way down to a tiny place called Study Butte by that evening.

We had planned to see the ghost town at Terlingua seeing as though we’d been robbed of seeing Rhyolite in California, but on arrival it turned out to be the crappest ghost town ever! For a start there were still people living there, which isn’t my definition of a ghost town, and the prevalence of corrugated iron on the buildings made me think that this was more like a ghost town from the 1940s than the 1840s.

On the 12th we spent the day in Big Bend National Park, again being unable to get to the best bits due to storm damage. We did get to see the Rio Grande though, and also nearly shagged the car driving down an ‘unmade road’ to some hot springs.

The following two days were long and uneventful, seeing us drive from the small town of Marathon (where we stayed in the historic Gage Hotel, which was great!) through to San Antonio on the first night, and then Houston on the second. We really didn’t spend any time in either of these cities, pushing on in the belief that our time would be better spent in Florida.