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Originally Posted by Swiss Carrera
Thanks everyone who has replied so far.
Full trip plans are thus:
Fly into DFW
Day or two in DFW.
Tulsa OK for a few days (visited before on our Route 66 trip, really liked the place so want to see more of it)
Overnight in Tucumcari NM
Overnight in Roswell NM, next day White Sand NP
Few nights in El Paso (used to visit here when I was a kid when we lived for a while in Chihuahua MX (Father worked for FoMoCo at the time)
Few nights in Marfa TX (staying at Paisano Hotel)
Few nights in Marathon TX (staying at Gage Hotel)
3 days to explore Big Bend NP.
Then we have a week free before we go home and my wife loves the beach and salt water, so that's why we want to stay at the beach.
As I'm sure you all agree happy wife, happy life!
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A few suggestions:
Instead of heading south at Tucumcari, consider going to
- Santa Fe (1 day/night)
- old town / church / galleries
- Meow Wolf
- Albuquerque (1-2 days)
- Balloon Fiesta is in October and really unique
- Tram ride up the mountain
- Atomic museum
Another idea if you don't go to Albuquerque/Santa Fe: go see the Texas Grand Canyon (Palo Duro) just south of Amarillo. It's camping only, but you could make a half day trip and still make it to Roswell.
From ABQ go to Roswell or White Sands
- IMO White Sands looks cool, but kinda boring
Carlbad Caverns is a must see. Better than White Sands
Be careful with the weather. October could be stupid hot or snowing in NM and Big Bend. The rest of Texas will likely still be 80F+.
South Padre Island (south most tip of Texas) is not a bad beach. But it's not fancy or new. And you're far away from stuff. But it's a decent beach and generally inexpensive, if no frills.
Consider going from Marfa to Fredericksburg for a night. Nice restaurants and wineries there. Great WW2 museum.
And then go to San Antonio and see the Riverwalk and Alamo. It's worth a day or so.
Go Corpus Christi from there. Has some touristy stuff including aquarium and battleship, and you can do beachy things across bay on Padre Island. The beach here is OK, and may be windy. It's always windy in Corpus Christi.
You could also do Houston/Galveston, but as noted, the water and sand in Galveston are brown and not nice like California or Florida. The Galveston downtown area is decent, but small. The Galveston seawall is generally ghetto and to be avoided, although there are exceptions like Hotel Galvez. Staying southwest of Galveston (Pirates Beach or Jamaica Beach) is nicer than the crowd in Galveston proper, but you're farther away from the restaurants.
Sounds like a fun trip
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