Links to Texas & Del Rio Sites:
Big Bend Ranch State Park
McDonald's Observatory
Click here
to read an article by Jessica Benavides about Del Rio, TX
entitled, "It's Saturday Night In Del Rio."
The Del Rio Council for the Arts with The
Firehouse have been the community leader in encouraging,
teaching and exhibiting the visual arts. It is a "must visit"
when you are in Del Rio...if you like the arts.
www.usachamber.com/delrio/ads/firehouse.htm
Trails & Rails
As a volunteer for the National Parks Service and Amtrak.
The program is called Trails & Rails. We give a historical and
geographical narrative between Del Rio and Alpine, Texas. With
me are Jim Miculka and his fiancé, Dottie, as well as E. Joe
Deering, a writer for the Houston Chronicle.
www.nps.gov/amis/trails.htm
Lee Lincoln, the director of the
Whitehead Memorial Museum,
has done a marvelous job of pulling together the history of Val
Verde County. I don't know how she feels about Judge Roy Bean
being buried right by her office...but I'm sure she's not
worried about being a victim of a hangin'. Check out the museum
at:
www.whitehead-museum.com/index.html
Alamo Village and
Villa Del Rio have had a wonderful relationship. We
provided the Tulisha Wardlaw and her mom, Virginia Shahan, their
first web presence back in 1997. Now that they have their own
website...they encourage the visitor to check out Villa Del Rio
for more information on Alamo Village. Alamo Village is the
world's largest outdoor movie set in the world...if you consider
all the acres that make up the Shahan Ranch...and their
longhorns.
www.homestead.com/thealamovillage/alamovillage/
Ciudad Acuña,
of the State of Coahuila, Mexico is the absolutely greatest
Mexican border town on the US/Mexico border. Great food,
shops...and...those Margaritas!!! Home of movies like Antonio
Bandera's "Desperado", and the foreign film "Like Water For
Chocolate", Acuña is a tourist destination just three minutes
from Villa Del Rio.
Fort Clark
Springs is the resort community where a century of
Cavalry activity took place. Established in the early 1850's,
this 2700 acre fort became the principal frontier protector.
Great generals, including Patton and Wainwright served here as
post commanders. Today it is the home to some 1000 permanent
residents as well as many "Winter Texans". Golf, swimming,
hunting, fishing, dining...all make for a splendid community
where the deer come to the door step. Visit Fort Clark at:
www.fortclark.com
Amistad
National Recreational Area is a National Park. This
park encompasses what is know as Lake Amistad...the
convergence of the Devils River, the Pecos River and the Rio
Grande...a 850 mile shoreline lake on the US/Mexico border.
What a great area for every kind of water sport from scuba
diving, bass fishing, paddle sports and houseboats. www.nps.gov/amis
The
beautiful clear waters of Lake Amistad provide a window to
one of the top bass fisheries in the country. Lake Amistad
is widely regarded as one of the top fishing lakes in the
country and is visited every year by some of the biggest
names in bass fishing. In addition to plentiful and large
black bass, Lake Amistad offers a large variety of other
game species which include smallmouth bass, stripped and
white bass and catfish.
Fishing Lake Amistad offers panoramic beauty of the
desert’s drastic landscape, wildlife viewing along the banks
and the opportunity to catch fish that anglers at other
lakes can only dream about.
The Upstagers...a
theater group...is too good to be only in Del Rio. But it
is. With them, we have "culture". If you are planning on
staying at the Villa over a weekend, perhaps you'll be
fortunate enough to take in a performance. Check their
programming at:
www.upstagers.org/
The Rock Art
Foundation is comprised of custodians from throughout
the state that have organized to not only preserve the 4000
year old art and artifacts, but to catalogue and interpret
the meaning of the thousands of ancient masterpieces.
www.rockart.org
