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seeking texas travel voy·eur

I have been fol­low­ing the trip of two friends at their web­site : seek­ing texas. Shortly into the trip they men­tioned a land­ing spot Marfa, TX. I decided to take a vir­tual voy­age there. First, I went to google maps and searched for the city.  You can check it out here: google map. This is what my first view of Marfa looked like:

Not much con­text eh? Ok lets step back a bit and look again.

Does that give you a bet­ter idea? I also searched for the town on the web. I found this web­site which enlight­ened my per­spec­tive even more.  From the website:

Where is Marfa?

Marfa, Texas is a small town in the moun­tain­ous Trans-Pecos region of South­west Texas. The Trans-Pecos is con­sid­ered all ter­ri­tory lying west of the Pecos River and east from the bor­der of New Mex­ico down to the con­flu­ence of the Pecos and Rio Grande River. Located equal dis­tance from the major cities of El Paso (189 miles to the north­west) and Mid­land (188 miles to the north­east), Marfa is an incor­po­rated town in the county of Pre­sidio, edg­ing the Mex­i­can Bor­der by the town of Oji­naga 60 miles to the south­east, Jeff Davis County on the north and Brew­ster County on the east.

Now I know a lit­tle bit more. It’s near Big Bend. I’ve always wanted to take a camp­ing trip there. But I would actu­ally have to go back to Texas. Hmm. I’ll be check­ing out their next land­ing pad soon.

Marfa
now has a pop­u­la­tion of around 2400. The largest employ­ers are the
Bor­der Patrol, the U.S. Depart­ment of Immi­gra­tion and Nat­u­ral­iza­tion
and U.S. Cus­toms. As Marfa is the seat of gov­ern­ment for Pre­sidio
County, a sig­nif­i­cant num­ber of res­i­dents are employed through the
county offices.

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