City Tour – Big Spring

We started our day with a free pancake breakfast at the Texas RV Park, we saw the owner at the pool last night and he told us they have a pancake breakfast for guests every Saturday morning. After breakfast we did some work around the mothership before exploring the park’s nature trail. The trail is short with lots of elevation change but there are a few benches along the trail to sit, observe and listen; unfortunately there was road noise from nearby US highway 89.

Our very long site at Texas RV Park.

Sandy and KoKo on Cactus Ridge along the RV park’s nature trail, we are looking down on Highway 89.

After walking the nature trail we drove a short distance down 89 to Comanche Trail Park. This is a large park that contains a golf course, community center, baseball fields, Lake Comanche Trail and the Big Spring. We walked around the spring and along a trail to the lake; after our walk we drove through the park where there is plenty of space for walking or picnicking.

The Big Spring that the city was named for is in Comanche Trail Park.

Sandy and KoKo check out the spring.

We drove into downtown Big Spring looking for the Post Office and the Potton House. The Potton House was built in 1901 and is one of the oldest homes in Big Spring; we saw the house but due to a confusing system of one way streets downtown I don’t think we could actually get there from where we were.

We then drove out to the airport as we wanted to check our route out of town tomorrow. At the airport we stopped at Hanger 25 Air Museum. This is a restored WW II flight hanger that contains a collection of exhibits about the Big Springs Bombardier School and Webb Air Force Base. The hanger and training facility were in use through the Vietnam War; it sounds interesting but unfortunately it had closed about a half hour before we arrived.

Hanger 25.

Along highway 700 we turned into Big Spring State Park and drove the loop road which was built by the Civilian Conservation Corp. The road winds it’s way 200 feet up onto, around and down a bluff. We met a few people walking the road and felt it would be a good hike but unfortunately the wind was really kicking in and we could see the afternoon dust storm coming so we did not stop.

You can see the red dust storm heading for Big Spring.

On our way back to the park we stopped at Wal-Mart for a few items, by the time we came out the dust storm had arrived. Back at the park we took another swim in the indoor pool which is nice and warm; we then hooked up the CRV and disconnected our water system as we are going to try to leave early tomorrow but it is already 10:30 PM and wind is still roaring outside so we will have to see how the night goes.