Big Bend National Park + Marfa, TX | US Road Trip Days 4-7

we're going hunting Mexico United States [Music] it is the fourth day of our road trip if you missed our first vlog which is days one through three we'll link to that in the description below and for those of you unfamiliar with our road trip we are road trippin from Seattle Washington to Marfa Texas and back over the next I guess two weeks for the holidays so it's a really long road trip we have a ton of fun stops along the way so if you missed the first couple days of our trip make sure to check that out and they'll have tons more vlogs coming your way soon yep we just got to Tucson Arizona we've been on the road for about four hours started really early this morning so we're gonna get even more coffee after the gas station coffee you're gonna step it up a little bit get some nicer stuff yeah and then hop back in and keep on trucking yeah and so fun fact I actually was born in Arizona so it's really fun to be back here I lived here from birth to 8 years old and then moved to Texas so it's fun to come back this is Adams I guess first time in Arizona to spend some real time here you saw the Hoover Dam last year earlier this year but to spend some real-deal time this is my first time yeah and we'll be back in April for an actual trip yeah so I'm gonna grab some coffee because we're very tired and I needed hit the road [Music] so we just stopped at Presta coffee in this really cool market I think it's called mercado san agustin it's this really cool a courtyard and then they have kind of around the courtyard different restaurants and there's a bakery as well so we went to press a coffee we got this peppermint shake urato which has peppermint oil condensed milk oh my gosh and then I think some cocoa powder on top we figured it's Christmas Eve we might as well be a little festive and it looks really good and we love condensed milk so I'm pretty sure it's gonna be bombed but let me just try it out just to make sure oh so creamy and good [Music] [Music] the homeland can I get a large fry please and a jalapeno and cheese water burger just a burger thank you first things first when crossing over into Texas from New Mexico gotta stop by water burger a Texas institution it's like Texas version of in and out we got a large fry I got a jalapeno and cheese water burger and Kona loves the fries of course what a dog happy we made it to Martha oh we're gonna be calling Martha home for the next three days we're gonna get a Big Bend we're gonna hang off my parents eat a lot of food play board games should be really fun it'll be a nice little break from driving before we start to make our way back to Seattle which will be a longer journey back and we're gonna make a lot more stops on the way home after driving 2,300 miles the past few days to get to mark that's been really nice to get here and just relax for a bit we've gotten a lot of sleep eating a lot of good food played some games oh you're gonna watch some Christmas movies and Kona's had a lot of fun playing ball oh yeah so we're now gonna leave the house go walk around and see some of the things Martha's kind of known for [Music] so Marfa Texas is a very small town in West Texas very close to Mexico it's home to about almost 1800 people and it started in the 1880s as a watery stop for the railroad absolutely the population grew and now it's kind of a tourist spot in Texas it's very small and it kind of is like a blast from the past but it has a really large art scene and so people come here to see the art and kind of just escape regular life and like the hustle and bustle of a regular city beyond like to come here so that's super cool so we're gonna walk around the town everything's closed because it's Christmas and go check out some of the art stuff on the side of the highway should be really fun and later [Music] we're walking around el khazneh Co which is probably the most popular place to stay in Marfa we highly recommend checking it out if you're visiting Marfa they have teepees air streams they're these like cool little hot tub looking things it's a really cool place to stay we couldn't stay here because of how many people we had but if we come back we're definitely staying here in the future [Music] [Music] you guys I am so excited we drove two thousand three hundred and something miles to come to Prada Marfa and the biggest shoe fan and I'm just so excited I'm happy to be here thank you in all seriousness I think this is really cool so promo Marfa is this random product not a real Prada store but meant to be it look like a product store in the middle of nowhere so it's like 30 minutes outside of Marfa it's just this like art installation the bags inside have no bottom so if someone steals at the bags useless and then the shoes are alright footage don't even try so don't try but it's really cool and it's really famous BRE I've seen on Instagram for years so it's really fun to be here Adams thrilled and Adam you've been such a good boy I think I'm gonna get hurt the Marfa lights which is like a super-famous thing to do in Martha basically from what we understand if you come out to this area at night you can see these weird lights that people think could be UFOs or people really don't know what they don't know what they are the Indians stars falling from the sky some people think it's like gases from the swamps people think it's like car lights like camp fires so we don't apparently you can't see them every night or people don't always see them but we figure we're gonna give it a trash and the stars are out it's beautiful man that's the moon is like hiding I guess so stars at night big and bright as they say deep in the heart of Texas so worst case scenario we get some cool star star photos so it's time to go find em aliens [Music] oh my gosh he saw the coolest bit of nothing didn't see anything except a lot of really cool stars you can see all the stars so I'm gonna see any Marfa lights but you're still fun so had a good time so it's cold though so we're gonna good morning from Big Bend National Park holla we're so pumped to be here today we both have never been here and I lived in Texas for 16 years in here all my life and we just never made it out here it's kind of one of our biggest Texas regrets so this is a big reason why we did this whole road trip was to come here so we're excited to do some hiking we're gonna do the lost mine trail first which is 4.8 miles round-trip 1,100 feet elevation gain the Sun has just started rising absolutely beautiful it kind of looks like Zion a little bit which we love so about to go get started on the track wanted to come here all my life heard so many great things about it and obviously because it's a national park it's gonna be awesome so I decided to spend the day here so whoo let's go [Music] feels great though wasn't too hard it's pretty easy [Music] [Music] so this is gonna sound weird but Big Ben reminds us of three places when you put them all together Bend is like so it's coming Zion it's kind of like the Isle of Skye in Scotland and then it's also kinda like Mount st. Helens it kind of like a Mars feel to it so it's a really cool combination Adam says it's probably one of his top national parks thing [Music] next up is the Santa Elena Canyon it's normally a 1.7 mile round trip hike but because the government shut down the road to the actual trailhead was closed so it's an extra mile each way but it's really flat so far the really cool thing about this hike is that you go through a canyon and the Rio Grande River runs through it and on one side of the canyon is Mexico and the other side is the US super cool so we're basically going to Mexico [Music] Mexico United States [Music] so really glad we did that it kind of made us like a much wider narrows at Zion National Park oh so cool and it was really cool that Mexico is on the other side yep so our next stop is barbecue here all right yeah we're leaving Big Bend and we're going to Adams favorite have a restaurant barbecue you back at it again with the barbecue indulgence BB's rustic iron barbecue in Tlingit Texas when you come to Texas you have to try Blue Bell ice cream it's Texas specific ice cream the best you can get in Texas I wish they headed in other places in the country like Seattle but they don't but it's my favorite kind of ice cream and this is a special holiday one it is spiced pumpkin pecan it's delectable and I love it good morning it's our last day in Marfa we're pretty bummed to leave we had a really fun time with my parents we're grabbing some coffee real quick with them we're gonna maybe go to an art installation walk around some shops grab some lunch and then we're gonna part ways with them [Music] we're at the janati foundation which is I think how you say it I'm not totally sure but basically this place houses the artwork of Donald Judd to go into the exhibit shape to pay but there's this cool outdoor area called the 15 untitled works in concrete that's totally free so we're just walking around here right now and basically it's just like these big concrete block things in a field you can see the mountains you can see the hills they have opening so you can see through them they're all position kind of different ways I think it's really cool Adam not so much but we're not really artsy people so to be expected I guess but we felt like we're in Marfa we needed to do one artsy thing so we chose to come here because it's free so we're gonna keep walking around and then we're gonna head on to our next adventure [Music] we are at food shark in Marfa which is this really popular food truck they also have this really cool school bus that you can sit in to eat your meal this place is really popular Beyonce has been here I think that's why it's so popular but it's middle eastern Mediterranean type food like falafel and like kebabs and stuff really excited it looks really really good and we're hoping to grab a seat on the bus [Music] [Music] we are officially on the road leaving Marfa we said goodbye to my parents we had a lot of fun with them we watched a lot of like Netflix movies and play games and explored Marfa Marfa is such a cool little place it's you know middle of nowhere there's not much to do here or really around but they have a lot of cool little shops the architecture is cool into the style it's kind of like hipster and artsy and it's pretty close to Big Bend so we highly recommend checking it out Clark was pretty awesome Marfa super cool it's like like she's saying we got like the new modern heart kind of thing but then there's also like old Wild West vibe going on and it's just a cool mix of stuff so really enjoyed it yeah we'd love to come back some day kind of a far drive for us though so we are headed to El Paso now we're gonna spend the next day and a half there and then head to New Mexico so we will see you there and I'm gonna jingle goes a little something like this [Music] Bluebell Country Day broadcasting live from Marfa Texas home of UFO was an alien we drove all the way from Seattle just to this see this Prada Marfa store [Music] you