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      Marathon to Marfa, Texas: Taking the long route via Big Bend National Park 

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      Published on 01-02-2011 01:06 AM
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      218 miles - 5 hours

      This memorable drive begins by heading south through dramatic desert country, then enters Big Bend National Park, with its spectacular mountains, massive canyons and the Rio Grande itself. From here the Texas River Road passes by Terlingua Ghost Town - try to break your journey here - then traces the Rio Grande's route through extraordinarily scenic border country. The final leg of this route heads north to ...
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      Del Rio to Alpine, Texas: A Beautiful Drive of Cactus and Canyons 

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      Published on 12-07-2010 01:15 AM
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      204 miles - 3-4 hours

      Follow this 200 mile drive west on US Highway 90 and you travel through a landscape of desert, canyons, rivers and mountains, made all the more magnificent by the brilliant blue Texan sky. This is road-tripping at its best, delivering a real sense of having the whole world to yourself as the melting, empty highway disappears into the distance. ...
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      Amarillo to Lubbock, Texas 

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      Published on 08-24-2010 01:03 AM
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      213 miles - About 6 hours

      You'd better have a Texas-sized hunger to complete this route…Starting in the Texas Panhandle with a 72-ounce steak at the famous Big Texan Steak Ranch, skip west for your piece of Ugly Crust Pie before dropping south into ...
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      Marfa to Odessa-Midland, Texas: From the Unexplained to The Big Greasy 

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      Published on 08-13-2010 01:15 AM
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      236 miles - About 6 hours

      After an oddly normal night in Marfa, this route meanders north through the Davis Mountains to an area teeming with historical sites and western lore. Just about every town along this route can claim one or two outlaws as founding citizens. ...
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      El Paso, Texas, to Roswell, New Mexico: From 'Everything's Bigger' to 'Land of Enchantment' 

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      Published on 07-12-2010 11:21 PM
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      300 miles - About 10 hours

      The western most section of the Texas Mountain Trail presents pictographs on the rocky Hueco Tanks, and then cruises through an expanse of salt flats, to the Guadalupe Mountains National Park. Turning north into New Mexico (the 'Land of Enchantment') for a quick visit to ...
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