Big Bend Brewing Co.
Museum of Electronic Wonders and Late Night Grilled Cheese Parlour
Planet Marfa's Teepee
My grilled cheese from Museum of Electronic Wonders and Late Night Grilled Cheese Parlour
Hanging with Drew Kennedy before the show
The Hangover at Cow Dog in Alpine, Texas
Thunderbird Motel sign
Marfa water tower
Seryn at Planet Marfa
El Cosmico
El Cosmico Trailers
Bob Schneider at the Granada
Railroad Blues
The O's
Amanda Shires with Colt Miller on steel
Terri Hendrix with Lloyd Maines
I met a girl wearing one of our shirts in the hotel lobby!
Cobra Rock Boot Co.
Colt and Logan making boots
Museum of Electronic Wonders and Late Night Grilled Cheese Parlour
Well, I know it's a little late but I wanted to make sure and share a little bit about our trip down to the Big Bend region a few weeks ago. Brian and I headed down to Marfa and Alpine during the last weekend in July for the
Viva Big Bend Music Festival sponsored by
Texas Music Magazine. It was an awesome time! We were basically there for two full days and we squeezed in as much music and fun as we could.
Day One:
-Arrive in Alpine 1 PM
Lunch at the Reata - Outstanding green chile sandwich and jalapeno cream soup.
Tour at the brand new
Big Bend Brewing Co. - We met the head brew master, Steve Anderson.We talked beer, and west Texas. He gave us both a sweet trucker hat and we gave him a Drink Texas Beer tee.
Checked in at the hotel in Marfa and in the lobby met a woman wearing one of our "I've Been Everywhere" tees!!! I got a pic with her. It was the first stranger I had ever seen wearing one of our shirts.....crazy!
Stopped by
Cobra Rock Boot Co. to visit with Colt and Logan. We dropped off some shirts for their shop. It was awesome to see them making boots in the shop. They punch out 12 pair a month!! Check them out!!
Off to
Padre's we went to see
Terri Hendrix and Lloyd Maines followed up by
Amanda Shires.
Marfa Lights Viewing Area for 30 minutes - no lights, then we left for Alpine to catch
Bob Schneider at the
Granada. Awesome show!!
Walked down the street to watch The O's at
Railroad Blues.
The O's are one of our favorite Dallas bands.They rocked as usual!
Day Two:
Walked around downtown Marfa - Took Photos
Went out to the hip
El Cosmico to check out he trailers. Apparently we missed
Ali Fedotowsky from The Bachelorette by a day and Beyonce by a few weeks. Ali was in town doing a spot on Marfa for
1st Look Look for it to air in the upcoming weeks!
We drove to Fort Davis for a delicious Tex-Mex lunch at Cueva De Leon
After lunch we parked ourselves at the
Planet Marfa outside bar and enjoyed the sunny 83 degree day by drinking our fill of Dos Equis for about 3 hours.
We got all cleaned up drove to Alpine to catch the
Drew Kennedy show at the
Reata. Drew traded us his new CD for a River Weed shirt. What a deal! Drew put on a great show. He has crazy songwriting skills and just happens to live down the street from my folks in New Braunfels. Check him out!
After Drew's gig, we headed over to Railroad Blues to get some grub at
Cow Dog. I had the Hangover dog. Picture above. Delicious!
We then drove back to Marfa, stopped to see lights again....no dice.
Planet Marfa was the next spot as if we didn't get enough in the afternoon. We watched Denton band
Seryn play a short set and then headed to Padre's for the
Uncle Lucius show.
We finished the night at the
Museum of Electronic Wonders and Grilled Cheese Parlour. It was one of the best grilled cheese sandwiches I had ever had. Super cool place and really nice folks!
We have already begun to plan for next year's trip for the festival! Y'all should join us next year!
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