Most remote place you've ever stayed

Chef, we've already made mention of the Horny Toads.

And Marfa is a big "hey let's go there for the weekend" place around here.

My best friend from high school is married to a guy from Ft. Davis.

 

I lived in Marfa until the gentrification got too ugly. It's still a great place to visit, though.

EDIT: Here's the Dallas Morning News spooging all over itself in honor of Marfa's hipness.

http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/photography/2006/marfa/

It's absolutely beautiful, but these days it's very divided socially...snarky rival cliques of artsy-urban expats on one hand, resentful long-time residents on the other. A shame.

 

Spent two and a half weeks in Praia do Tofo, Mozambique. From the capital, Maputo, you take a six-hour bus ride to Inhambane, and then catch another ride in a minibus lasting about another hour.

Best beaches in the world.

And Mokhotlong in Lesotho was pretty much in the middle of nowhere.

 

My brother played ball in Yuma, Ariz., last summer. I made the drive from L.A. to Yuma to see him play. There were places along the interstate that I felt really really alone.

It was funny to be sorta stop by border patrol on the way back, until they saw a white guy in a 2007 Camry. Just waved me on through.

 

And Marfa has the ghost lights. Though I didn't see them the time I went down there because there was a full moon. It made me very angry.
I personally like Alpine more than Marfa or Fort Davis.

 

Houghton, Michigan. Nothing to do but drink gas-station beer and eat pasties.

And Bubbler, there is never, ever any reason to get off HWY 61 on the north shore.

 

I only saw the Marfa lights about every other time on those occasions when I went to the lights viewing area.

Fort Davis is a xenophobic ranching town. Pretty, though.

Alpine, although it's a little dumpy, gets my thumbs-up. I lived there, too. Be sure to check out the Railroad Blues (bar and live music venue) when you go there. It's the only town in the area with basic resources, i.e., emergency medical care. As a friend of mine once observed, "They may have a pricey Northern Italian restaurant in Marfa, but when one of those fat New York fucks has a heart attack and needs a defibrillator, he comes to Alpine."

 

Actually, they realigned that six-man district on the latest UIL go-round. It's not Fort Davis, Rankin, Garden City, Ackerly Sands and Sanderson. Don't know where Balmorhea got to, but that district was just murder this year. All five teams combined for two losses in their pre-district schedule.

 

UIL broke six-man into Division I and Division II so in West Texas it was:
Dell City, Sanderson, Sierra Blanca, Balmorhea and Marathon (though they cancelled their season) in a Division II district.
Grandfalls-Royalty, Loop, Dawson, Buena Vista and Klondike in a Division II district.
And the superpower district that Kritter was referring too was a Division I district:
Garden City, Fort Davis, Rankin, Grady and Sands. Rankin actually only lost twice, but didn't make the playoffs.

 

Ack, misplaced Sanderson. I knew Grady sounded right, but I'm not at the office and am too lazy to look it up.

I love the names of those little Far West Texas towns.

 

One of my favorites is Iraan. Too bad it is not pronounced like the country, because that would be hilarious that a town called that is so close to where GWB and Laura use to live.

 

Till like 25 years ago, the good students at Michigan Tech would have to road trip to Marquette to get McDonald's...