the milky way rising in Big Bend National Park

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4. my wife laughs at me sometimes for doing it

in her words , lets see, your going to drive 500 miles to someplace literally in the middle of nowhere, in the desert whens its 110 degrees out to take pictures???
no thanks,ill stay home.

I try and go every year but missed the last 2 years. theya re supposed to be doing a major reconstruction that will close part of teh park for 2 years starting soon so this was my last chance for a while to ger been ther et to part of the park.



If you've never been there the park is amazing. when i say its in the midlel of nowhere i mean nowhere. the nearest town with over 300 people or so is about 100 miles away. the nearest wal mart is over 3 hours.
at the rio grande its 110+ degrees starting in may. at chiso basin its 20 degrees cooler since its so much higher in elevation. (over a mile high,3k feet higher than the river).

Big Bend has the darkest skies in the continental US. The milky way is unmistakable in the night sky its so bright.