Oh Dark Thirty
If you are a Weckerly you always leave for your trip at Oh Dark Thirty!!! And we did. "We will get to Chisos Mountain Lodge at Big Bend and hopefully check in by 2 PM, and then head to the McDonald Observatory," we reasoned. We had 7 PM reservations to the "Star Party" on our first night there. Previously, I had not been able to secure tickets, but put our names on the waiting list. And I felt so excited when we received the email saying we could actually get tickets. You don't know how long I have wanted to go to the observatory and see the stars! So off we went! We were on the road by 5 AM. (That's Oh Dark Thirty for you Weckerlys!) You'll need to be aware of the distance we planned to cover. Google maps said that San Marcos to Chisos Mountain Lodge was seven and a half hours. Then it is another two and a half or three hours from there to the McDonald Observatory near Ft. Davis, Texas, making the one-way total 621 miles by 7 PM. Tick-tock, tick-tock. I...